Coronavirus is no excuse for companies to ignore Uighur exploitation

West should not buy equipment from Chinese businesses allegedly using forced labor

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Muslim trainees work in a garment factory at the Hotan Vocational Education and Training Center in Xinjiang: the scale of abuse should not be downplayed. © CCTV/AP

Bradley Jardine is a Schwarzman fellow at the Wilson Center's Kissinger Institute on China and the United States.

In late April, Reuters revealed that e-commerce giant Amazon had recruited Dahua Technology, a video technology manufacturer recently blacklisted by the U.S. government, to supply thermal equipment for its warehouses. Amazon bought around 1,500 video cameras to monitor the temperature of staff on its premises.

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