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EU reaches deal on forced labour ban, with China’s Xinjiang in its sights (www.scmp.com)

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The funniest part about this ban is that it puts intense scrutiny on US supply chains, which are heavily reliant on prison labour.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago

I was gonna say, are they targeting the US then, which has one of the world's largest slave labor populations? Somehow I doubt they'll actually take action against the US for all the slave labor that happens there.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

There will just be an exemption for supply chains with US elements.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Weird how a ban on forced labor would affect a system relying on forced labor!