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Workers produce garments at a textile factory that supplies clothes to fast fashion e-commerce company Shein in Guangzhou in southern China's Guangdong Province on June 11, 2024. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images
Beijing’s lead in apparel exports to the United States has been reduced in favor of other Asian nations, with experts attributing the decline to the U.S.–China trade war and a growing international awareness of the Chinese regime’s human rights abuses, among other factors.
Venus Upadhayaya reports on India, China, and the Global South. Her traditional area of expertise is in Indian and South Asian geopolitics. Community media, sustainable development, and leadership remain her other areas of interest.