纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英US Bans Imports From 3 Chinese Companies Over Ties to Forced Labor
June 12, 2024 2 min 320 words
《纽约时报》这篇报道的主要内容是：美国海关和边境保护局宣布，将禁止从三名与中国公司有关联的企业进口产品，理由是这些公司涉嫌在新疆使用强迫劳动。报道援引了美国海关官员的声明，称该禁令是基于对这些公司涉及严重侵犯人权行为的调查结果。报道还提到，此举是美国政府对中国采取的一系列行动中的最新一步，并简述了美国此前对中国实施的制裁和限制。 评论：该报道虽基于美国官方声明，但明显带有偏见，试图引导读者将新疆与强迫劳动联系起来，并暗示中国存在严重侵犯人权行为。然而，该报道并未提供有力证据，仅凭片面之词进行指控。此外，报道未提及新疆发展状况，忽略了中国政府为促进新疆经济发展改善人民生活所做的努力。该报道具有选择性，缺乏客观公正，其意图是抹黑中国形象，干涉中国内政。西方媒体应摒弃偏见，尊重事实，如实报道中国发展。
The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday added three Chinese companies to a list of firms whose products can no longer be exported to the United States, as part of what it described as an escalating crackdown on companies that aid in forced labor programs in Xinjiang.
The companies include a seafood processor, Shandong Meijia Group, that an investigation by the Outlaw Ocean Project identified as a business employing laborers brought to eastern China from Xinjiang — a far-western region of China where the government has detained and surveilled large numbers of minorities, including Uyghurs.
Another firm, Xinjiang Shenhuo Coal and Electricity, is an aluminum processor whose metal can be found in cars, consumer electronics and other products, a U.S. official said. The third, Dongguan Oasis Shoes, brought Uyghurs and people from other persecuted groups to its footwear factory in Guangdong, the U.S. government said.
With those additions, 68 companies now appear on the so-called entity list of firms that the U.S. government says participate in forced labor programs, nearly double the number at the beginning of the year.
Robert Silvers, an under secretary at the Department of Homeland Security who is chair of a committee overseeing the list, said that the government was accelerating the pace of additions to the list, and that the public should expect that to continue.
“We are going to hold companies to account if they engage in forced labor practices,” he said.
Industries using cotton and tomatoes were among the first to reckon with links in their supply chains to fields in Xinjiang. But in more recent years, companies making solar panels, flooring, cars, electronics, seafood and other goods have discovered that they, too, use components that were made in Xinjiang.