You may be eating fish caught and processed by Uyghur forced labor | Kenneth Roth

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Much of the study focused on people coercively kept on China's distant-water fishing fleet, which holds workers at sea for months at a time in appalling conditions, often with lethal neglect.
53% : Enforcement could be stronger - members of Congress fear that many goods made in Xinjiang are slipping by, especially as companies try to launder products through firms outside of China - but this presumptive bar is a powerful policy.
47% : The vote mattered so much to Beijing that Xi Jinping is reported to have personally telephoned four (unidentified) heads of state to urge a pro-China vote.
42% : The EU is planning to ban all products of forced labor - a good generic policy - but, again, without a presumptive bar for Xinjiang.
22% : Britain and the EU have done shamefully littleLast month, Chinese diplomats sent letters - really threats - to discourage attendance at an event on the sidelines of the UN general assembly spotlighting Beijing's persecution of Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims in China's Xinjiang region.

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