Nike, Other Global Brands, Complicit in China Slave Labor
by Gordon G Chang, Gatestone Institute:
“Slave labor.”
That is the term U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used on July 16 when speaking about China to television anchor Bill Hemmer on his Fox News show.
The polite phrase is “forced labor.” America’s top diplomat, however, was dropping the diplomacy and employing America’s most powerful weapon: Unvarnished truth.
The unvarnished — and horrific — truth is that the Chinese party-state has institutionalized slavery, ramped it up to industrial scale, and offered slaves to foreign companies. Moreover, compounding its crime, China picks its slaves from racial minority groups inside its borders.
The secretary of state’s words came at the same time as the administration criticized the American business community. Attorney General William Barr excoriated U.S. companies in both his late-June interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo and his blistering speech of July 16 at the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum. The administration’s fundamental contention is that companies enjoying the protection of the U.S. should uphold U.S. values.
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