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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How to sell cosmetics and beauty products in China

How to sell cosmetics and beauty products in China

The Chinese have a growing taste for imported food supplements

 The Chinese have a growing taste for imported food supplements. 

Dietary supplement companies should target Chinese by capitalizing on food safety concerns as China's increasingly health-conscious middle-class consumers flock to dietary supplements. 

Just watch out for wealthy Chinese tourists visiting New York and you will likely see bags of GNC or Vitamin Shoppe among those from brands like Chanel, Berger-Goodman or Barney.

The additional cost that Chinese consumers are willing to concede for their health - and the Chinese population is enormous - means a potential windfall for major producers and retailers of a dietary supplement in the United States and Europe.

This year, the vitamin and dietary supplement market in China is expected to reach CNY 149 billion (US $ 22.3 billion). According to JD.com, the sale of vitamins and dietary supplements has increased fivefold since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The growing awareness of the resolvable demand of health problems, the worsening of health problems due to environmental destruction and the aging of the population are the three main reasons for such a trend.

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The official Beijing 2022 Winter Games

 The exercise has become a ritual. On the home page of the official Beijing 2022 Winter Games website, a digital countdown displays the days remaining before the opening ceremony. Only 143 in this Tuesday, September 14. Less than five months.

At this stage of the preparation, the vagueness continues to envelop the conditions of organization and hosting of the next Olympic and Paralympic meeting. With or without an audience? What sanitary bubble? What form of quarantine? A lot of questions. Few answers.

On Monday, September 13, a statement from the International Skating Union (ISU) further heightened the uncertainty. The body announces the cancellation of the Four Continents Championships, a competition of figure skating and ice dance open to non-European competitors. They are due to be held in Tianjin, China, from January 17 to 22, 2022, just two weeks before the opening of the Beijing Winter Games. The city of Tianjin is located less than 150 kilometers from the Chinese capital.

Reason given by the organizers: travel restrictions, quarantine requirements, security and the logistical challenge. Officially, the competition has not yet been removed from the international calendar for the 2021/2022 season. The ISU explains inviting its members to submit an application for the event in place of the Chinese, on the date initially scheduled (January 17 to 22, 2022). Based on the proposals received, the Council of the instance will make a decision at its next meeting on October 1, 2021.

But the essential is elsewhere. 

With less than five months of the opening of the Beijing Winter Games, China is no longer content to strike out one by one all the international sporting events scheduled on its soil until the end of the year. It is now pushing the cursor until January 2022, i.e. in the home stretch before the start of the Winter Games.

The cancellation of the Four Continents Championships comes just weeks after the Chinese decided to give up the organizer of the China Figure Skating Cup, the ISU Grand Prix stage. It is to be held from November 4 to 7, 2021 in Chongqing.

All concert in Beijing has been on the raise explain this concert website in Beijing

As a coincidence, the announcement of the cancellation of the Four Continents Championships came on the same day as the WTA's decision to relocate the Finals of the women's professional tennis circuit. They are scheduled to take place in November in Shenzhen, the host city of the annual event in 2030. They will move to Guadalajara, Mexico.

With such an avalanche of renouncements, the Olympic movement can already prepare for the Winter Games without a foreign audience. Officially, the decision has not yet been taken. But the Chinese government has let it filter that the number of international arrivals should not exceed a ceiling of 30,000, a gauge that leaves little room for people other than the athletes and their technical staff, officials and the media.

For the rest, mystery. 

The organizing committee has still not started selling the venue to the Chinese public. It could never be launched. According to several sources, the Chinese are waiting to see how the 14th China National Games, the biggest national sporting event, will go. It is due to start on Wednesday, September 15 in Xi'an.

Presented as a life-size test of the Beijing Winter Games, they will host around 13,000 Chinese athletes. To prevent any risk of the virus spreading, local authorities closed in mid-August more than 4,000 restaurants, bars and tourist spots. They also carried out compulsory screening of the city's 13 million inhabitants. Ticket holders must be fully vaccinated for at least 14 days. They will present a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours before the start of the event.

According to the IOC, the first practical guide to the Beijing Games detailing the health measures established for accredited members, this now famous "playbook" prepared for the first time by the Japanese for the Tokyo Games, will be published before the end of October . It should allow to know a little more about the travel, movement and stay restrictions decided by the Chinese. Less than four months from the opening ceremony

BFSU, a Chinese University proposing online lessons.

CBEC what it is?

 Good question that a lot of people ask. 

CBEC  = Cross border e-Commerce China 

The regulatory framework for cross-border e-commerce was put in place in early 2011 by the Chinese authorities to facilitate the purchase of products from abroad to Chinese consumers.

All the decrees issued between 2010 and 2014 have indeed created a call for air for Western companies by offering them the following advantages:

Exemption from registration of trademarks and their products in China

Chinese labeling of products waived

Flat rate tax up to 3x lower than the general regime tax.

To benefit from these advantages, companies are required to sell their products on Chinese cross-border B2C marketplaces. The sale of goods must be a "real" B2C transaction, that is, the shipment of the package directly to the consumer after the latter has placed the order on a cross-border website.

New more favorable developments for foreign brands have applied since January 1, 2019: the purchase ceilings per consumer have been raised, the state has clarified the responsibility of the actors used (foreign brands, e-commerce platforms, service providers ...) and an extended bonded warehouse, which greatly shortened delivery times.

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