U.S. senator slams Apple, Amazon, Nike, for enabling forced labour in China By Reuters
By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. senator on Thursday slammed American companies, including Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Nike Inc (NYSE:NKE), for turning a blind eye to allegations of forced labour in China, arguing they were making American consumers complicit in Beijing's repressive policies. Speaking at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on China's crackdown on Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in its western Xinjiang region, Republican Senator Marco Rubio said many U.S. companies had not woken up to the fact that they were "profiting" from the Chinese government's...
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