Commentary
Beijing is furious over a new U.S. law. It passed late in 2021 but only went into effect this past June. It would ban imports of any goods connected to the forced labor of Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang region.
It would understate to say that Beijing has taken umbrage. Its spokespeople have angrily denied the existence of forced labor anywhere in China and vowed legal action and retaliation against American goods.
According to a State Department report on international religious freedom, released on June 2, Beijing “has detained more than one million Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Hui, and members of other Muslim groups, as well as some Christians, in specially built internment camps or converted detention facilities” in Xinjiang since April 2017….