The United States has called on Canada to participate in banning Chinese products made using forced labor

According to a Canadian website report, US Under Secretary of State for Civil Security, Democracy and Human Rights Ezra Zia told this newspaper on February 12: “The United States, along with Canada and other allies, will take strong action to ‘stop the forced labor of Uyghurs and Tibetans.’ We are actively negotiating a ban on Imports of manufactured goods from China.”

Ezra Zia stressed that the United States not only completely banned the import of products made with forced labor, but also passed a law in 2021 to designate any product produced in East Turkistan as made using Uyghur forced labor.

She also said that the Uyghur Forced Labor Prohibition Act is a powerful diplomatic tool for the United States, and will bring perpetrators of forced labor crimes to justice and protect the legal continuation of the supply chain.

It turns out that the Canadian government amended the Customs Tariff Act on July 1, 2020 to prohibit the import of all or part of products suspected of being produced by forced labor. But so far the entry of such goods into Canada has not been stopped.

According to US Customs and Border Protection data, as of January this year, the US government had banned a total of 2,972 Chinese goods suspected of being produced with forced labor.

China's practice of forced labor policy

Hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs have been found to be forced into forced labor in factories in East Turkistan and China, and some companies in East Turkistan have been the target of accusations that production is done through “forced labour.”

In December 2021, the US Congress adopted a law prohibiting the import into the United States of goods produced through forced labor of Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious groups living in East Turkistan. The Washington administration had decided to impose sanctions on the companies that were the subject of the allegations and the companies that dealt with them.

Spokesmen for the Beijing administration described the forced labor allegations as "lies fabricated by anti-China forces" and tried to deny them, claiming that they were far from the human rights conditions in the country.

However, according to an Australian Strategic Research Institute (ASPI) report, Uyghur Muslims are used as slave labor to supply goods to more than 100 countries and 83 famous brands.

Looting the wealth of East Turkistan

China has been plundering natural resources since its occupation of East Turkestan, and has intensified its plundering operations in recent years. Observers say that the Chinese authorities are exploiting the resources of East Turkistan only to meet China's needs, and the people of East Turkistan, who are the real owners, have not received any benefits and are even living in poverty. According to the crime of genocide in East Turkistan, China announced that it had begun plundering East Turkistan's resources on a large scale using smart devices.