VW luxury car imports held up after claims of 'forced labour' in China
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Porsche, Bentley and Audi cars held at US ports after parts 'made' by Xinjiang forced labour uncovered

The suspect part had been sourced by a supplier in the VW supply chain and not by VW directly, it was claimed.

It came as Volkswagen was hit by additional claims from German media that it had benefitted from human rights abuses in China’s troubled Xinjiang region.

  • 0x815@feddit.deOPEnglish
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    9 months ago

    @TheGrandNagus

    If you’re a maker of something as complex as cars, and you order a lot of your parts from a country like China, good luck not having anything that benefited from forced labour.

    I still can’t believe the west chose, of their own volition, to destroy their own manufacturing base. What a travesty.

    If you don’t understand that, feel free to go to Xinjiang and work in one if the camps there. It may help you understand.

    I hope the EU will soon introduce its Supply Chain Law as planned and make the use of forced labour a crime that can be punished.

    • ede1998@feddit.deEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I understood his comment as the west chose to outsource a lot of manufacturing to Asia and now does not have the capability to do so locally anymore, i.e. destroyed that manufacturing capability.