Several e-commerce platforms in China have stopped displaying the digital store of the Swedish clothing brand
H&M
, months after the company issued a statement announcing the suspension of the use of
Xinjiang
cotton
for the alleged use of
forced labor.
in the sector.
Searches for the Swedish brand on the platforms
JD.com
,
Taobao
,
Tmall
and
Pinduoduo
no longer
returned
any results.
This Wednesday, the
Central Committee of the League of Communist Youth
of China published a message through its profile of the social network Weibo (known as the "Chinese Twitter") in which it said:
"Do you want to earn money in China by time to spread rumors to boycott Xinjiang cotton?
The text was accompanied by the statement from
H&M
in which the brand declares the prohibition "of any type of forced labor" in its supply chain "regardless of country or region."
It also announced that it would terminate its employment relationship with a Chinese supplier until the accusations made by a report that pointed to
82 Chinese and foreign companies
of benefiting from the forcible transfer of members of the Uighur minority
were clarified
.
At 11.30 local time (03.30 GMT time) on Thursday, the message from the
Communist Youth League
had been shared more than 40,000 times and received more than 411,000 "likes" and 16,000 comments, many of them in favor of the expulsion of the brand from the country.
Also other companies - such as the American
Nike
, which issued a statement similar to that of
H&M
last year
- have been affected by the call for a boycott of these by some Chinese Internet users, and today it was known that at least one of their images In the Asian powerhouse, actor
Wang Yibo has
terminated his contract with
Nike
.
These calls for a boycott, months after the communiqués in this regard by
H&M
and
Nike
, come in the same week in which the European Union (EU) announced sanctions against four individuals and a Chinese institution for the alleged human rights violations that they would be taking place in the northwestern Chinese region of
Xinjiang
, where the international press faces numerous obstacles to report.
The
United Kingdom
,
Canada
and the
United States also
announced sanctions in the same direction.
On the same day these measures were announced, last Monday, China responded with sanctions against 10 individuals and 4 EU institutions in retaliation.
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