“Volkswagen is currently in talks with the non-controlled joint venture SAIC-Volkswagen about the future direction of business activities in Xinjiang province. Different scenarios are being considered intensively,” a spokesperson said when asked about the report.
Rights groups have documented abuses in Xinjiang, including the ethnic minority Uyghur population being subjected to forced labour in detention camps. Beijing denies any such abuses.
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Who is honestly surprised? China just enforces slave labor or at a minimum forced exploitative labor to keep production cheap.
This is how they’ve tried climbing the world ladder, undercut everyone else’s cost with exploitation.
And everyone else in the world does the same thing.