China-US Tensions Intensify: US Bill Targets Beijing Over Uyghur Forced Labor

China-US Tensions Intensify: US Bill Targets Beijing Over Uyghur Forced Labor
Cotton pickers harvest a cotton crop at a field in Hami, in China's far west Xinjiang region, on Sept. 20, 2011. STR/AFP/Getty Images
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Beijing is furious over a new U.S. law. It passed late in 2021 but only went into effect this past June. It would ban imports of any goods connected to the forced labor of Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang region.

Milton Ezrati
Milton Ezrati
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Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and chief economist for Vested, a New York-based communications firm. Before joining Vested, he served as chief market strategist and economist for Lord, Abbett & Co. He also writes frequently for City Journal and blogs regularly for Forbes. His latest book is "Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live."
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