Commentary
The pressure is on for the biggest U.S. brands, including Apple, Nike, Adidas, and Disney.
On May 2, two leading congressmen demanded that the fashion brands confirm that their supply chains are untainted by slave labor in China. Sourcing from forced labor in the country’s Xinjiang region, where a genocide is underway, is now against U.S. law.
Apple is so dependent on workers and consumers in China that on May 3, a Financial Times article called Apple a “Chinese company.” Apple has 54 stores in China, and its chief executive officer, Tim Cook, recently praised Apple’s side-by-side growth with the country as “symbiotic.”…