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Chinese Government Erasing Western Retailers’ Online Stores, Locations For Voicing Human Rights Concerns

Tim Pearce
Chinese Government Erasing Western Retailers’ Online Stores, Locations For Voicing Human Rights Concerns
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China is cracking down on Western retailers for expressing concern over reports that slave labor is being used to gather cotton from the country’s Xinjiang region.

Clothing brands and retailers such as H&M and Nike are claiming that they are being targeted by the Chinese government online. Beijing, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, has wiped shop locations from online maps and apps and deplatformed the retailers’ web stores, according to BBC.

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