Australian Think Tank Implicates Automakers Of Benefiting From Forced Labor Camps

In a report that harkens back to the grim days of World War 2-era Germany, several automakers are accused of benefiting from forced labor.

An Australian think tank claims upwards of 80,000 Uighurs, a persecuted ethnic minority in northwest China, have been transported from state-run re-education and internment camps to the factories of Chinese suppliers. Among the companies said to benefit from the forced labor are Apple, Sony, Nike, Volkswagen, BMW, and General Motors.
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malba2367 - 3/3/2020 12:52:44 PM

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VW and BMW both have a history of utilizing forced labor, and both are controlled by families who had extensive ties to the Nazis. The optics of this is very bad for both

MDarringer - 3/4/2020 8:44:18 AM

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"Optics" is soooooo 2014.

MDarringer - 3/3/2020 8:31:46 PM

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Let's say this is true. [I suspect it's just Alt-Left bullshit.]

This is an issue within CHINA and it is hubris for a non-citizen to tell a country what to do.

carloslassiter - 3/4/2020 7:40:30 PM

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I assume you feel our middle east policy is also hubris, and we should immediately withdraw from all territories and stop meddling in this two-state nonsense?

MDarringer - 3/4/2020 8:29:37 PM

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I have a much better plan than diplomacy.