President Joe Biden's top appointee to the Federal Transit Administration recently invested in a Chinese textile company that relies on forced Uyghur labor for the production of its clothes and footwear in China's Xinjiang province.
Li-Ning Company, founded by former Olympic gymnast Li Ning, has been identified by the U.S. government and human rights groups as relying on forced Uyghur labor to produce their goods in China's Xinjiang region.
In Xinjiang, the Chinese Communist Party routinely subjects the ethnic minority group to forced labor, torture, mass surveillance, and involuntary sterilization.
Beyond relying on slave labor for its products, Li-Ning Company has publicly defended its use of cotton from the Xinjiang region amidst Western boycotts.
The company was praised by the state-run Global Times newspaper, in an article entitled "More Chinese Brands Support Xinjiang Cotton Amid Global Giants' Boycott." The article praised companies who rejected campaigns to end the practice of forced Uyghur labor.
The purchase follows The National Pulse revealing Fernandez's financial stake in another Chinese Communist Party-linked technology firm: Tencent.
The State Department's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation has described Tencent as a "Tool of the Chinese government," noting the company has "No meaningful ability to tell the Chinese Communist Party 'no' if officials decide to ask for their assistance." Even the progressive group Amnesty International rated Tencent's data encryption capabilities zero out of 100, noting it hadn't "Stated publicly that they will not grant government requests to backdoor."
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/04/27/biden-dot-czar-bought-stock-in-chinese-company/
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