September 18, 2020 2:34PM ET

China Goes on the Defensive as US Scrutinizes Xinjiang Supply Chains

China published a white paper defending its “reeducation camps” in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as vehicles of poverty alleviation. — In this file image from undated video footage run by China's CCTV via AP Video, Muslim trainees work in a garment factory at the Hotan Vocational Education and Training Center in Hotan, Xinjiang, northwest China. A U.S. company that stocks college bookstores with t-shirts and other team apparel cut ties Wed., Jan. 9, 2019, with a Chinese company that drew workers from an internment camp holding targeted members of ethnic minority groups.

CREDIT: CCTV via AP Video, File

China lashed out in defense of its “reeducation camps” in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region just as a House subcommittee hearing pondered an act that would ban virtually all goods from the northwestern territory and days after U.S. Customs and Border Protection slapped Withhold Release Orders on products reportedly made using state-sponsored forced Uyghur and…

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