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Bipartisan Group Of Lawmakers Urge NBA Players To Drop Chinese Endorsement Deals

Ashe Schow
Bipartisan Group Of Lawmakers Urge NBA Players To Drop Chinese Endorsement Deals
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A bipartisan commission of U.S. congressmen is urging NBA players to end their endorsement deals with Chinese companies that source cotton from China’s Xinjiang region, where the government is rounding up a Muslim-minority population and placing them in forced labor and concentration camps.

The New York Post reported that the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, which it described as “a bipartisan and bicameral panel,” wrote a letter to the National Basketball Players Association, urging professional players to end their endorsement deals with Chinese sportswear firms ANTA, Li-Ning, and Peak.

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