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CHINESE SLAVE LABOR AND TIM COOK'S APPLE - UN Xinjiang Report Still Awaited, But Another UN Expert Cites Forced Labor, ‘Enslavement’ Abuses
Apple CEO Tim Cook, the architect of the multinational corporation’s China outsourcing scheme, was one of the biggest proponents of the amnesty for 4.4 million illegal aliens while Big Agriculture donors lobbied lawmakers to pass the farmworker amnesty.
UN Xinjiang Report Still Awaited, But Another UN Expert Cites Forced Labor, ‘Enslavement’ Abuses
A 'vocational and education training service center,' or re-education internment camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are reported to be detained, north of Kashgar in the Xinjiang region in western China. (Photo by Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – With time running out on the release of a long-awaited report on Xinjiang by the U.N.’s top human rights official, a separate U.N. expert has issued a finding that it was “reasonable to conclude” that ethnic minorities in the far-western Chinese region are victims of stated-backed forced labor.
Tomoya Obokata, the “special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery” said in a report that Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other minorities were being put to forced labor in sectors such as agriculture and manufacturing, and that “some instances may amount to enslavement as a crime against humanity.”
Obokata, a Japanese international law scholar, pointed to a state-mandated “vocational skills education and training center system, under which minorities are detained and subjected to work placements.”
Additionally, a “poverty alleviation through labor transfer system,” transfers surplus rural workers to others areas where labor is needed, he said, noting that he identified a similar situation in Tibet as well.
“While these programs may create employment opportunities for minorities and enhance their incomes, as claimed by the [Chinese] government, the special rapporteur considers that indicators of forced labor pointing to the involuntary nature of work rendered by affected communities have been present in many cases,” Obokata wrote.
“Further, given the nature and extent of powers exercised over affected workers during forced labor, including excessive surveillance, abusive living and working conditions, restriction of movement through internment, threats, physical and/or sexual violence and other inhuman or degrading treatment, some instances may amount to enslavement as a crime against humanity, meriting a further independent analysis.”
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) fiercely disputes accusations of crimes against humanity and genocide in Xinjiang, and denies documented allegations that more than one million minority Muslims have been incarcerated in camps there in recent years.
It says its “vocational and education training centers” or “VETCs” in Xinjiang are part of a successful program designed to counter Islamic radicalism.
‘There has never been forced labor in Xinjiang’
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin on Wednesday lashed out at Obokata, saying that he had chosen to “believe in lies and disinformation about Xinjiang spread by the U.S. and some other Western countries and anti-China forces.”
Wang said the U.N. expert had abused his authority, maligned and denigrated China, and violated the code of conduct expected of U.N. special rapporteurs.
“There has never been forced labor in Xinjiang,” he said. “The Chinese government follows a people-centered development philosophy and attaches great importance to protecting the rights and interests of workers.”
Wang said critics of China have fabricated claims about Xinjiang, and were using human rights as a pretext to undermine the region’s prosperity “and contain China’s development and revitalization.”
“Their scheme will never succeed,” he said, urging Obokata to “stop serving certain countries’ political scheme to suppress and contain China by abusing the U.N. platform.”
Obokata’s report, which covers problems globally relating to “contemporary forms of slavery,” was prepared for submission to the U.N. Human Rights Council’s upcoming session in Geneva, which begins on September 12.
Before then, current U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet’s tenure runs out at the end of August.
With less than two weeks to go, there has still been no sign of her office’s long-promised report on Xinjiang, years in the making.
Last September, Bachelet told the HRC that the report was being finalized for public release. Almost a year later, it remains under wraps, and it was reported last month that Beijing has been urging Bachelet to bury it altogether.
Bachelet’s office said earlier this year that the report would have to go to the Chinese government for its input before publication, and she has committed to releasing it before her departure.
Earlier this month Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in a letter to Bachelet called for the immediate release of the report.
“As you approach your departure as High Commissioner on August 31, the report remains buried while CCP diplomats reportedly conduct a flurry of confidential lobbying to halt its release,” he wrote.
“Do not let the CCP further taint your tenure as Commissioner by withholding the report a minute longer.”
Controversy over the delayed report was compounded when Bachelet last May paid a long-anticipated visit to Xinjiang, but was accused by critics of submitting to Beijing’s restrictions and pulling her punches in an end-of-trip press briefing.
Using China’s own euphemistic terminology, she said she had been unable during her visit to assess “the full scale of the VETCs,” but that “the government assured me that the VETC system has been dismantled.”
Facing growing calls for her resignation, Bachelet days later announced that she would not stand for a second term when her current one ends on August 31 – although she said the decision had been taken before the China trip.
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Lobbyists for Silicon Valley tech giant Apple are reportedly
attempting to weaken a new law aimed at preventing slave
labor in China, the Washington Postrevealed on Friday.
The Washington Post reported, citing two anonymous congressional staffers, that Apple lobbyists are working to dilute the effects of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which would require U.S. companies to guarantee that they do no use slavery or forced labor from the mainly Muslim region of Xinjiang, where it is estimated that the Chinese government has placed as many as 3 million people into concentration camps.
Apple relies heavily on manufacturing in China and human rights reports have reportedly identified instances where Apple’s supply chain has been fed by Uyghur forced labor that evidence suggests is tantamount to slavery.
Woke Apple Will Try Again to Get Employees to Return to Office After Being Called Racist for Last Attempt
Apple will attempt to get its employees to go back into the office after trying for over a year to no avail. This time, the company has set a September 5 deadline for corporate employees to be in the office at least three days a week. Last time the woke giant attempted to get its workers back into the office, it was branded as racist for trying.
Apple says it will now require its corporate employees to work from the office on Tuesdays, Thursdays, as well as a third day during the week that will later be determined by individual teams, according to a report by Bloomberg News.
(AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
Tim _Apple_ Cook testifying via TV (Pool/Getty)
The company’s original plan was to have its corporate employees return to the office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, but it failed to accomplish this goal.
In May, Apple was even deemed racist for making such a request, as a group of Apple employees, who called themselves “Apple Together,” condemned the company’s decision to bring staffers back into the office, claiming that such a demand is actually an attempt to make the workforce “younger, whiter, and male-dominated.”
The group’s letter reads in part:
Apple will likely always find people willing to work here, but our current policies requiring everyone to relocate to the office their team happens to be based in, and being in the office at least 3 fixed days of the week, will change the makeup of our workforce. It will make Apple younger, whiter, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied, in short, it will lead to privileges deciding who can work for Apple, not who’d be the best fit.
Privileges like “being born in the the right place so you don’t have to relocate”, or “being young enough to start a new life in a new city/country” or “having a stay-at-home spouse who will move with you”. And privileges like being born into a gender that society doesn’t expect the majority of care-work from, so it’s easy to disappear into an office all day, without doing your fair share of unpaid work in society. Or being rich enough to pay others to do your care-work for you.
The tech giant, which has been trying to get its employees back into the office since at least June 2021, is going to try again — and is even dropping its mask mandate in common areas of its offices.
Only time will tell if Apple becomes successful in its latest attempt to get back to a traditional working environment.
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