I’m contacting you in light of our latest investigation which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s food processing industry.
Seafood processing companies in Shandong province have received persons from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China who were transferred under the government’s labor transfer program. The United Nations, human rights organizations and academic experts agree that since 2018, the Chinese government has systematically subjected Xinjiang’s predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities to forced labor across the country via state-sanctioned e…
I contacted your office recently regarding our investigation into the use of forced labor in China’s seafood processing industry. I’m contacting you now in relation to our research into the Chinese distant water squid fleet.
Our investigation has found that between 2013 and 2021, at least 27 workers on 17 Chinese squid fishing ships suffered symptoms associated with beriberi, a disease caused by malnutrition which medical experts say is preventable, reversible, and an indicator of severe neglect. Of those workers, at least 15 died. In some of these cases, captains refused to send crew back to…
Research bodies such as the Brookings Institution have said that China is expanding its military power by using the Chinese fishing fleet to press territorial claims in various parts of the world as a kind of civilian militia. Does the Ministry have any statement or clarification to make in response to that description?
A recent investigation has found a variety of seafood plants in China near the border with North Korea that in the past few years have made use of North Korean workers in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2397. Could the Foreign Ministry please answer the following question: What steps has the Chinese government taken to ensure that North Korean workers are no longer being employed in China as is mandated by the sanctions issued in 2017?