{"id":212430,"date":"2021-03-26T17:14:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T14:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hm-burberry-scrubbed-from-internet-in-china-over-forced-labor-accusations\/"},"modified":"2021-03-26T17:14:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T14:14:55","slug":"hm-burberry-scrubbed-from-internet-in-china-over-forced-labor-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hm-burberry-scrubbed-from-internet-in-china-over-forced-labor-accusations\/","title":{"rendered":"#H&M, Burberry scrubbed from internet in China over forced labor accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#H&M, Burberry scrubbed from internet in China over forced labor accusations<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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H&M stores are virtually disapp<\/a>earing in China amid a rapidly exploding controversy over human rights violations in its cotton-picking region.<\/p>\n

Beijing consumers could not find locations for the fast-fashion retailer on either Apple Maps or Baidu Maps on Friday, according to Bloomberg, although stores for other retailers, including Japan-based Uniqlo, continue to be listed.<\/p>\n

Burberry, meanwhile, became the first luxury brand to be ensnared in Beijing\u2019s apparent crackdown of critics of its labor practices in the Xinjiang region. <\/p>\n

The company\u2019s trademark plaid design was scrubbed from a popular video game<\/a> in China \u2014 Honor of Kings \u2014 and a Chinese actress who had been tapped as a brand ambassador terminated her contract, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

The Biden administration on Friday blasted the boycotts and said they are being led by China\u2019s ruling Communist Party to punish companies that have chosen to avoid cotton from the region amid allegations of forced labor of a minority group known as the Uyghurs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States condemns the \u2026state-led social<\/a>-media campaign and corporate and consumer boycott against companies, including American, European and Japanese businesses,\u201d State Department spokeswoman Jalina Porter said.<\/p>\n

H&M was removed from Alibaba\u2019s e-commerce platform earlier this week after a group linked to China\u2019s ruling party posted on Chinese social media site Weibo a critical statement H&M had released in September. <\/p>\n

The statement said the company was \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d over reports of forced labor in the production of cotton in Xinjiang and emphasized that it didn\u2019t source its cotton from that region.<\/p>\n

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H&M\u2019s flagship store in Beijing on Thursday.<\/figcaption>
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Both Nike and Adidas have made similar statements about not sourcing their products from Xinjiang. There were calls this week in China for boycotts of their products as well.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s Communist Youth League and the People\u2019s Liberation Army both spoke out earlier this week specifically against H&M\u2019s statements \u2014 which appear to have been deleted from its social media accounts.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the Chinese government spoke out against \u201clies and disinformation\u201d about Xinjiang in response to the United Kingdom imposing sanctions this week for alleged human rights abuses in that region.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Aerial view of a seeding machine sowing cotton seeds in a field on Wednesday in Tumxuk, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. <\/figcaption>
VCG via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London-based Burberry is a member of the Better Cotton Initiative, which promotes sustainable cotton production and which said last year that it was suspending its approval of cotton sourced from Xinjiang. Burberry\u2019s cotton is sourced from the US, Australia, India, Turkey and Egypt, its website says.<\/p>\n

Burberry\u2019s Chinese brand ambassador, Zhou Dongyu, said she would no longer work with the fashion giant because it had not \u201cclearly and publicly stated its stance on cotton from Xinjiang,\u201d according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

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The Chinese e-commerce site Taobao displays the message \u201cSorry, no related items were found\u201d when searching for products from clothing retailer H&M.<\/figcaption>
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It\u2019s not clear who is responsible for eliminating H&M\u2019s store listings from the map software, but it\u2019s widely known that the Chinese government controls and censors social media content in the country, restricting access to its 1.4 billion consumers.<\/p>\n

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The Chinese ride-hailing app Didi Chuxing shows the message \u201cno results, try another search term\u201d when searching for destinations beginning with the letter H in Beijing on Friday.<\/figcaption>
AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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