Xinjiang cotton issue divides China's biggest sportswear group

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NIKKI SUN, Nikkei staff writer

HONG KONG -- China's largest sportswear company is at loggerheads with its own international subsidiary over whether to use cotton produced in a minority region tied to reports of forced labor, underlining how the retail world is being split over an issue that has already brought Western brands into conflict with Chinese consumers.

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