The Big Take
The Dispute Over Forced Labor Is Redefining the Entire US-China Relationship
Even as Washington ramps up pressure over human rights abuses, Beijing is investing more in a labor program it sees as a form of charity.
To much of the world, the name “Xinjiang” has become synonymous with human-rights abuses after China’s push to assimilate mostly Muslim ethnic minority Uyghurs sparked an international outcry.
But as the US prepares to ban all goods from the remote western region later this month, President Xi Jinping is now moving to rebrand Xinjiang and better integrate it with the rest of China — and the globe.