China says U.S. fabricating news of forced labour in Xinjiang

Reuters

Published Dec 03, 2020 03:16AM ET

BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Thursday that politicians in the United States are fabricating news of forced labour in the northwestern Xinjiang region, after Washington banned imports of cotton produced by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) alleged to use the forced labour of detained Uighur Muslims.