New Labor Law between USA and China

 The "Strike Hard campaign against violent terroristism" launched by the Chinese government. It targets native Uyghurs as well as other Turkic Muslims living in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This is the only area in China that has a majority Muslim population.

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Over a million people have been held arbitrarily in 300-400 facilities since then. They are subject to torture and mistreatments, including rape, for downloading ebooks in Uyghur or sending Islamic religious recordings to their family, Human Rights Watch reported.

The detainees are forced not to practice their religion and forbidden from speaking their language. They are also commanded to praise President Xi Jinping, the Communist Party, and to praise President Xi Jinping in what some consider a government-led program of cultural genocide.

China denies any allegations of forced labor or other abuses.

In 2019, the U.S. ambassador to religious freedom Sam Brownback challenged the Chinese government about the existence of the camps. China finally admitted the existence of the camps after increasing pressure from media outlets and governments around the world. However, they defended them as schools for anti-extremism training. They were more like a "boarding" school than a "concentration camp" which the "people are grateful for."

Cotton - The Fabric Full Of Lies is a 2019 book written by Han Lianchao. Lianchao suspects that many of these incarcerated Uyghurs are being used for forced labor in various industries similar to the 500,000-800,000 other prisoners in more than 70 prisons in the Xianjing area.

Lianchao concluded that 84 percent of China’s cotton is produced in the Xianjing area. Therefore, most cotton products sourced directly from China, including those entering the U.S.A and Europe, could be tainted by forced labor.

Lianchao's suspicions were confirmed when Nury Turkel (an Uyghur-American lawyer, and Human Rights Activist) testified before Congress that Uyghurs held in Xinjiang reeducation camps are frequently relocated to factories as forced laborers.

The New York Times reported that approximately one in five garments made of cotton globally contains yarn or cotton from Xinjiang. They also found evidence linking the Uyghur detention to major fashion retailers' supply chains.

Since 1930, all goods created with forced labor are banned in the United States under the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act. This includes goods that have reasonable evidence of forced labor.

Chinese companies have to adapt to this changement, including US based China factories, explain a labor lawer in shanghai. 

Companies that have ties to Uyghur forced labour

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), published a report "Uyghurs For Sale" in March 2020. It identified 83 global brands and companies that were linked to Uyghur forced labor within 27 factories located across nine Chinese provinces.

The Act allows for an exception from its ban on imports to the XUAR if an importer has fully complied to the Act's guidance, substantively answered all U.S. CBP inquiries to determine the origin of the good, ware, article, or merchandise and provided "clear and convincing evidence" that the goods were not produced by forced labor. The Act instead assigns the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force ("FLETF"), a 2020 executive order, with publishing an enforcement strategy that includes "guidelines to importers with regard to...the type, nature and extent of evidence that shows that goods originating from the People's Republic of China were not mined or produced wholly or in part using forced labor."

Narrow eyes facing social media bash in China

 Some social media users were so upset that the company removed the ads from the internet and apologized for making people feel "uncomfortable" about them, dailystar reported.

Cai stated that she didn't know how she got cyberbullied and that she was just doing her job as a model with narrow eyes.

"My parents gave me my looks. Do you think I have insulted China just because I am Chinese? The 28-year old wrote the following on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform.

After a photo she took for French luxury brand Dior caused a backlash, a top Chinese fashion photographer apologized for her "ignorance". It featured a Chinese model with narrow pupils.

Recent social media protests have also been triggered by Gucci and Mercedes-Benz ads featuring narrow-eyed Chinese women.

Critics claim that these companies perpetuate western stereotypes about Chinese faces, despite a growing sense online nationalism and anti-west sentiments in China.

Many people wondered why the adverts didn't feature models with "fair skin" and large, round eyes -- ideal beauty features for China.

China Daily published an editorial recently denouncing the recent ads featuring Cai Ningniang.

Three Squirrels, a Chinese brand should have known about Chinese consumers' sensitiveness to advertisements, read the editorial.

Scholars disagree and say that although it is understandable for some consumers to be offended by the ads, the outcry it generates is too simplistic. It rejects the notion that there are many ways to look Chinese.

BBC quoted Dr Luwei Rose Luqiu from Hong Kong Baptist University, as saying, "Rejecting "slanted eyes" is a dangerous phenomenon because it is the rejection aesthetic pluralism."

Ironically, the current preference for large, round eyes may have been influenced by western culture. Experts believe that the most recent shift in beauty standards occurred around the late 1970s due to exposure to foreign advertisements and entertainment, when China opened its doors to all the world.

Dr Jaehee Jung from the University of Delaware, a consumer behavior expert, said that women in China today seem to agree with many of the western standards of female beauty.

Large, round eyes are prized so much that many young Chinese women wear makeup and even have cosmetic surgery to increase their size, such as creating a double eyelid crease.

The growing popularity of aesthetic medicine in China has led to a rise in the number of people who are interested in improving their appearance. Millions of people now want to improve their appearance in different ways and for different reasons. Here are some reasons why this is a popular beauty treatment.

What's the difference between plastic and cosmetic surgery?

Both cosmetic surgery and plastic surgeries are concerned with improving the body of patients. However, the overarching principles that guide the training, research and the goals for patient outcomes differ. Plastic surgery is concerned with repairing and reconstructing normal functions and appearances. Cosmetic surgery is a procedure that aims to improve the appearance of a patient.

The key goals are to improve aesthetic appeal, symmetry, proportion, and balance. All areas of the body can be treated with anesthesia. Cosmetic surgery can be performed on areas that work properly. Doctors from many medical fields can perform cosmetic elective procedures, including plastic surgeons.

What is the rise in cosmetic surgery in China?

China is still a patriarchal society. Being beautiful can help you find a husband and work well in your job. Chinese society believes that women must marry with children to be successful at the age 25. Cosmetic surgery may then be an option to make them more attractive and desirable to men.

A growing number of Chinese women are using cosmetic surgery to achieve larger eyes, higher cheekbones and slimmer legs. Many are trying to imitate Wu's elegant style, which is influenced by the manga comics of Japan, South Korea's K-Pop and Western culture.

Many men are having breast implants done to look bigger. Similar to that for women, the procedure for men is the same except that the implants are harder and different in shape. The stitches are then removed after approximately one week. The procedure costs $1200. The majority of people who had the procedure said that they did it because they believed a stronger chest would attract a partner, impress a client, or boss.

GengMei is a trusted platform for cosmetic surgery

According to the website, GengMei, which has an augmented reality feature that can analyze faces and assign them a grade out 100 based on criteria such as its attractiveness, liveliness and symmetry, has 36 million users. It also lists nearly 20,000 surgeons, according to a spokesperson for the company.

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