WASHINGTON DC – A giant economic and paramilitary organisation which controls much of the cotton industry in the Xinjiang region of China – where it has been linked to human rights abuses against imprisoned Uyghur Muslims – is continuing to profit from global markets, according to a new study.
The state-owned Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) is still able to sell its cotton internationally – despite US and EU sanctions, according to the report by the US-based research organisation Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS).
It found that subsidiaries of the XPCC – including three members of the Better Cotton Initiative – were still selling Xinjiang cotton to western brands and retailers despite international action to prevent this.
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