German VW luxury cars have been impounded at US ports amid claims they contained parts made through forced labour in China (inews.co.uk)

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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.

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[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Yes. The West chose. Western companies did it, and western governments were fine with it.

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