Arrested, missing China activists spark criticism of Trump
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[quote]The arrest and disappearance of three labor activists investigating a Chinese company that produces Ivanka Trump-branded shoes in China prompted a call for her brand to cease working with the supplier and raised questions about whether the first family’s commercial interests would muddy U.S. leadership on human rights.
The men were working with a U.S. nonprofit to publish a report next month alleging low pay, excessive overtime and possible misuse of student labor, according to China Labor Watch executive director Li Qiang, who lost contact with the investigators over the weekend. China Labor Watch has been exposing poor working conditions at suppliers to some of the world’s best-known companies for nearly two decades, but Li said his work has never before attracted this level of scrutiny from China’s state security apparatus.
The arrest and disappearances come amid a crackdown on perceived threats to the stability of China’s ruling Communist Party, particularly from sources with foreign ties such as China Labor Watch. Faced with rising labor unrest and a slowing economy, Beijing has taken a stern approach to activism in southern China’s manufacturing belt and to human rights advocates generally, sparking a wave of critical reports about disappearances, public confessions, forced repatriation and torture in custody.
China Labor Watch’s investigation also had an unusual target: a brand owned by the daughter of the president of the United States.
“Ivanka’s brand should immediately cease its work with this supplier, and the Trump administration should reverse its current course and confront China on its human rights abuses,” Adrienne Watson, spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee, said in a Wednesday email. Ivanka Trump must decide, she added, “whether she can ignore the Chinese government’s apparent attempt to silence an investigation into those worker abuses.”[/quote]
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So after all that talk about "America First" they're [I]still[/I] getting their shit made in China?
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;52295657]So after all that talk about "America First" they're [I]still[/I] getting their shit made in China?[/QUOTE]
[url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/senate-democrats-ask-trump-for-answers-on-china-trademarks/2017/05/31/eba39e42-45e8-11e7-8de1-cec59a9bf4b1_story.html]According to the Washington Post article from today[/url], Trump and his family have 40 registered trademarks in the Chinese market.
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;52295657]So after all that talk about "America First" they're [I]still[/I] getting their shit made in China?[/QUOTE]
Trump has effectively admitted that it's good sense for businesses to move production overseas, he just said he would fix all the things that caused that to happen.
Good luck, because the things that caused that can't just be blamed on Obama, repealed in Congress, or really even attributed to the government at all
[QUOTE=paindoc;52295693]Trump has effectively admitted that it's good sense for businesses to move production overseas, he just said he would fix all the things that caused that to happen.
Good luck, because the things that caused that can't just be blamed on Obama, repealed in Congress, or really even attributed to the government at all[/QUOTE]
Good to know that "good business sense" and "morals" aren't mutually inclusive.
That sort of business sense literally translates into "fuck you, got mine".
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;52296372]Good to know that "good business sense" and "morals" aren't mutually inclusive.
That sort of business sense literally translates into "fuck you, got mine".[/QUOTE]
You forget that this is the same asshole who has said in the past that tax loopholes are bad but if we want him to stop using them then we should close him. He's right that we need to close them but that doesn't make him less of a morally ambiguous asshole for abusing them though.
[QUOTE=paindoc;52295693]Trump has effectively admitted that it's good sense for businesses to move production overseas, he just said he would fix all the things that caused that to happen.
Good luck, because the things that caused that can't just be blamed on Obama, repealed in Congress, or really even attributed to the government at all[/QUOTE]
Well manufacturing [B]does[/B] get cheaper once you start jailing and torturing workers' rights activists, so there's still a lot he can do to make American slave labor great again.
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