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A review of the supply chain is also being discussed in Japan, which is too reliant on China for products and materials. At the beginning of the Corona disaster, the reality that even masks could not be purchased nationally satisfactorily taught us the key points of globalization.
Meanwhile, the president of the United States, Trump, reiterated the decoupling between the United States and China (economic disconnection) in September. Haas, president of the main US think tank “Foreign Affairs Council,” also said that in the post-Crown world, supply chain fragility will lead to further decoupling, but in the United States, at least some supply chains supply are “from-China”. It is about to end.
These American movements cannot be understood solely from an economic point of view. Behind the scenes is the escalation of the conflict between the United States and China for supremacy. However, that alone cannot be fully understood. Little known in Japan, the rapidly deteriorating Uighur problem in China has had a major impact on American politics.
Currently more than 1 million people are said to be detained against their will in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In addition to ethnic issues, criticism is increasing not only in the United States but also around the world in terms of common values of the international community, such as religious freedom and basic human rights.
In March this year, Australia’s leading think tank, the Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), published a report on forced labor involving Uighurs. He named the real names of 82 world-renowned companies such as Nike, Adidas and Apple, noting that the supply chain may contain forced labor.
According to the report, the persecuted Uighur tribe were sent from Xinjiang to factories in other parts of China to work, and the situation strongly suggests forced labor. China denied the content, but the report’s response was excellent.
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