The State Department later on Tuesday updated its business advisory on the Xingjiang supply chain to call attention to China’s “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and the evidence of widespread use of forced labor there.”

Did they change their minds about this?

[–] Skua@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Genuinely, yes. That's the nature of having to publish a report before you can do all of your investigating. The State Department releases a report in roughly the middle of each year called "Report on International Religious Freedom". I don't know if there's one for every country every year, but they definitely release one for a lot of countries, and they definitely release one for Xinjiang specifically every year. The reports on Xinjiang go from no mention of genocide in 2019, the possibility of genocide and an ongoing investigation in 2020 (the most recent one when the article you linked was written), and "it looks like genocide and we think that China's political leadership is doing it intentionally" since then.

[–] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good thing the UN told them to fuck off.

[–] Skua@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

They didn't call it genocide, but they're pretty seriously critical of China's actions in Xinjiang