After the U.S. government put a Xinjiang-based subsidiary of Esquel Group, a leading Hong Kong clothing company, on the entity list on the pretext of so-called “forced labor”, Esquel Group fought back. According to Bloomberg News, Hong Kong’s Esquel Group issued a statement on the 6th stating that the U.S.’s relevant accusations on Xinjiang-related issues are “unsupported by evidence” and that no so-called “forced labor” was found after an investigation of Xinjiang factories and that it will The U.S. government went to court.
Former US President Trump used the so-called “forced labor” during his term of office” Violating human rights” and other old smear rhetoric, Xinjiang Changji Esquel Textile Co., Ltd. (Changji Esquel), a subsidiary of Esquel Group, was included in the so-called “entity list.” According to reports, Esquel Group said in a statement on the 6th that after multiple third-party independent investigation agencies used internationally recognized industry standards to conduct on-site inspections of Xinjiang production plants and interviewed Uyghur workers, they found no so-called ” “forced labor” evidence. The Changji Esquel textile factory is “highly automated and technologically advanced” and “requires skilled workers, as opposed to a business model that relies on cheap labor.”
Esquel Group also emphasized that the U.S. Department of Commerce’s inclusion of its subsidiary on the “Entity List” has caused “devastating reputational and commercial harm” to the company. , is suing the U.S. government for “erroneously” listing its subsidiaries.
The report stated that a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Commerce said it would not comment on the Esquel Group’s lawsuit.
The report mentioned that an article published on the official website of Esquel Group in September 2020 stated that as of the end of 2019, Esquel Group had a branch in Xinjiang It has a team of more than 1,300 people, including more than 400 Uyghurs, adding that nearly 15% of Uyghur team members have worked in the company for more than 10 years.
Recently, some forces in the United States and the West have frequently hyped Xinjiang-related issues in an attempt to discredit China . In addition to “Xinjiang cotton”, the U.S. Department of Commerce also plans to include many companies in the Xinjiang photovoltaic industry on the “Entity List” and restrict imports by related companies on the grounds of so-called “suspected human rights violations.” Regarding this matter, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian stated at a regular press conference on June 24 that China strongly condemns the U.S. sanctions on Chinese companies based on lies and false information. The so-called “forced labor” and “genocide” in Xinjiang are completely “lies of the century.” Based on lies, the United States abused the “entity list” to crack down on Xinjiang’s photovoltaic industry. Such actions not only violated international trade rules and market economy principles, but also undermined the global industrial and supply chains.
Zhao Lijian pointed out that from cotton to photovoltaics, from agriculture to industry, the United States uses human rights as a guise to suppress Xinjiang’s industrial development by any means, harming the Xinjiang people’s rights to survival and development, and fully exposing that the United States’ true purpose is not to care about the facts. and the truth, it does not really care about the people of Xinjiang, but creates “forced unemployment” and “forced poverty” to cause chaos in Xinjiang and curb China’s development.
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