Posted on 02/29/2020 3:33:09 PM PST by KingofZion
LAIXI, China — The workers in standard-issue blue jackets stitch and glue and press together about 8 million pairs of Nikes each year at Qingdao Taekwang Shoes Co., a Nike supplier for more than 30 years and one of the American brand's largest factories.
They churn out pair after pair of Shox, with their springy shock absorbers in the heels, and the signature Air Max, plus seven other lines of sports shoes.
But hundreds of these workers did not choose to be here: They are ethnic Uighurs from China’s western Xinjiang region, sent here by local authorities in groups of 50 to toil far from home.
After intense international criticism of the Communist Party’s campaign to forcibly assimilate the mostly Muslim Uighur minority by detaining more than a million people in reeducation camps, party officials said last year that most have “graduated” and been released.
But there is new evidence to show that the Chinese authorities are moving Uighurs into government-directed labor around the country as part of the central government’s “Xinjiang Aid” initiative. For the party, this would help meet its poverty-alleviation goals but also allow it to further control the Uighur population and break familial bonds.
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We can only hope the virus wipes out the chicom infrastructure
Where is the Boycott of Nike?
Gee, that pompous former football player is quiet on this...
Commie SOB’s. What’s LeBro the leftist puke have to say about this?
Burnie, the commie, wants to make sure everyone has a job.. 100% employment.! The bums better give it some thought before they vote for the commie...
Have never purchased a Nike product. Thirty or more years ago there was a news story that Nike paid Michael Jordan, or Jordan and a few other athletes, more than they paid 30,000 Asian factory workers. Been boycotting them ever since.
Nike was a “leader” in sending US shoe and apparel factories to cheap labor nations and it looks like nothing’s changed.
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Gee, I wonder how many of the shoes have CORONAVIRUS in them?
Nike - The sneaker of slavery!! Somebody tell Colin Kaepernick, who is making millions on the backs of slaves!
Somebody should tell Colon Kaepernick.
GMTA
Very thoughtful of Nike and the Chinese Government to keep the Uighurs busy while they wait to volunteer their organs to people more in need of them than they are.
Is this saying that making shoes for Americans is demeaning work that the Chinese won't do?
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