Tag: ASPI

US forces ‘Xinjiang forced labor’ narrative on enterprises, industry agencies

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

US forces ‘Xinjiang forced labor’ narrative on enterprises, industry agencies

The US Agency for International Development has also been found to be supporting and participating in BCI activities.

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Influenced by the council team, the BCI head office set up a special team on April 1, 2020 to investigate “forced labor” in Xinjiang, which included 11 member retailers, consulting companies and civil organizations, such as Shelly Heald Han from the FLA, Komala Ramachandra from Human Rights Watch, and Allison Gill from International Labor Rights Forum.

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“Currently, BCI’s activities in Xinjiang have been suspended, which means it has lost nearly 90 percent of its business in China – it is cutting off its own limbs,” an insider who requested anonymity told the Global Times.

Western Media Source:

China branch of cotton trade body finds no forced labour in Xinjiang

*Xinjiang*

US prison labour, foreign weapons-makers finance Australian government think tank ASPI

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

US prison labour, foreign weapons-makers finance Australian government think tank ASPI

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute is not only funded by the Defence Department but also receives sponsorship money from foreign governments, weapons manufacturers, and US corporations that have used or are using prison workers paid as little as 23 cents an hour. Marcus Reubenstein reports.

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Sinophobia Inc: Understanding the Anti-China Industrial Complex

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Sinophobia Inc: Understanding the Anti-China Industrial Complex

The revolving door of the military-industrial complex crosses party lines. Take Randall Schriver, a China hawk hand-picked by Steve Bannon to serve as the Trump Administration’s Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs. Schriver was the founding president of the Project 2049 Institute, a hardline security think tank funded by weapons giants like Lockheed Martin and General Atomics and government entities including the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense and the National Endowment for Democracy. Predictably, under Schriver’s leadership, Project 2049 called for increased arms sales to Japan and Taiwan while sounding the alarm on the supposed threat of a “flash invasion” of Taiwan or a “sharp war” with Japan.

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Hawkish, Gov’t Funded Think Tank Behind Twitter Decision to Delete Thousands of Chinese Accounts

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Twitter’s decision came after close collaboration with a deeply controversial U.S. and Australian government-funded think tank that has been denounced by Australia’s former ambassador in Beijing as “the architect of the China threat theory in Australia.”

Hawkish, Gov’t Funded Think Tank Behind Twitter Decision to Delete Thousands of Chinese Accounts

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