The Senate Finance Committee has launched a probe into whether leading automakers are using materials made with forced labor from China’s far west Xinjiang region, where the Chinese regime is engaging in a systematic campaign of repression on Uyghurs and other ethnic Muslim minorities.
Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, sent letters on Dec. 22 to the top executives of automakers Tesla, General Motors, Ford, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, Toyota, and Volkswagen, reminding them that Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act bars the importation of goods made in Xinjiang, unless a company can demonstrate that the items were made without forced labor….