Editor's Note: Maxime Vivas (Vivas) is a French writer and journalist, who wrote a book titled Ou ghours, pour en finir avec les fake news(Uygurs, to put an end to the fake news) based on his two visits to Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in 2016 and 2018. Recently, his new book Les Divagations des Antichinois en France(The ramblings of anti-China forces in France) has been published in which he wrote about how he was under attack and threats for insisting on speaking the truth.
Illustration by Kou Jie/People's Daily Online Most companies prefer to reap the benefits of free trade and globalisation rather than trying to undermine them. The so-called “Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act (UFLPA)”, which the US President Joe Biden signed into law in December 2021 and took effect on June 21, is leading many to do the opposite.
From May 23 to 28, Ms. Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, paid a six-day visit to China, the first of its kind in 17 years.
German car giant Volkswagen has recently encountered a sudden increase of political pressure in the West and the US over a plant it opened in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region nine years ago. German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said recently that Germany has refused a company's investment guarantees and the decision "was the "first time an investment guarantee has not been given on human rights grounds.
