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Is The Entire Democratic Party Compromised By China?

House Democrats shot down a GOP motion earlier this month that sought to bar corporate cooperation with Chinese slave labor.

The Motion to Recommit proposed by Kentucky Republican Rep. Andy Barr amending a Democrat bill on corporate disclosure would have required businesses to report to the Treasury Department if they discover a supplier or other business partner was found using forced labor.

Two-hundred and seventeen Democrats rejected the measure and the amendment failed. A look at their corporate donors might reveal why.
Slave Labor Profits to Campaign Coffers

In March last year, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) published a report credibly accusing 82 major brands of profiting, either directly or indirectly, from Chinese slave labor by minority Uyghur workers from the northern Xinjiang province. According to the report, investigators estimate more than 80,000 Uyghurs were taken from their native provinces to work in factories across China between 2017 and 2019, with thousands more sent straight to concentration camps.

Using open-source Chinese-language documents, satellite imagery, academic research, and on-the-ground reporting, ASPI linked 82 brands with forced labor operations among 27 factories across nine Chinese provinces. A Federalist analysis drawing on financial disclosure reports published in OpenSecrets found at least 44 of the 80 companies named made U.S. campaign contributions in last year's election cycle.

A vast majority went to Democrats, who raked in three-quarters of all federal donations from companies credibly accused of harnessing Chinese slave labor, while less than 12 percent flowed to Republicans. Of the nearly $40 million that went to congressional candidates between the two major parties, Democrats took home more than 85 percent, as opposed to Republicans, who received less than 15.

Meanwhile, 39 out of the 42 companies that made donations gave more than half to Democrats, with nearly a dozen skyrocketing contributions in last fall's contest compared to previous cycles. Apple and Nike, for example, which deployed high-powered Washington lobbyists to fight the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act barring importing products from Chinese slave labor, each spiked their donations to Democrats by more than 400 percent in a year Republicans embraced a tough stance on China.

The chart from OpenSecrets below outlines Apple's contributions to federal candidates, showing the company's affiliates gave upwards of $7.5 million to Democrats in 2020 as opposed to less than $2 million in 2018.

Nike's contributions graph shown below, again from OpenSecrets, shows the company's affiliates gave more than $1.2 million to Democrats in 2020, a jump from less than $300,000 in 2018. The company also plummeted in contributions to Republicans at the same time, giving nearly $700,000 to Republicans three years ago and giving less than $150,000 to GOP candidates in 2020, a more than 350 percent decrease.

Nike, headquartered in Oregon, has shown particular loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to retain access to its lucrative Chinese markets. Just last week, the company's Chief Executive Officer John Donahoe declared Nike "a brand that is of China and for China."

In a statement to ASPI investigators, the company denied it employed workers from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and said it was cooperating with industry leaders to avoid such links. Its Washington activism, however, says otherwise.

The three companies that gave a majority of their campaign contributions to Republicans meanwhile - Carter's Inc., Haier, and BMW - Republicans only marginally benefitted. BMW's donations were near-evenly split, with 50.3 percent of donations going to the GOP and 49.7 percent in Democrat coffers. Haier spent nearly $57,000 on Republicans and nearly $40,000 on Democrats. Carter's Inc. gave less than $20,000 in federal contributions total.

Coca-Cola, on the other hand, which also deployed its team of Washington lobbyists to defeat anti-slave labor legislation in November, upped its Democrat donations to more than $700,000 in 2020 from less than $500,000 in 2018. The company lowered its contributions to Republicans by nearly $250,000, giving $600,000 to Republicans in 2018 and around $350,000 to GOP candidates in last year's cycle.

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act never received a vote in the upper chamber. Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio reintroduced the bill in the Senate earlier this year.

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Holier-than-thou LIBERAL Canadians, think they're soooo superior when it comes to slavery, because they "ended" it (not really) a mere 30 years earlier.

Canada "ended" slavery a mere 30 years before Lincoln wrote the "Emancipation Proclamation".

HOW does that make Canada ANY "better" or different? It doesn't.

Canada's Shameful, Modern-Day Slave Trade https://torontosun.com/2012/02/10/canadas-shameful-modern-day-slave- trade/wcm/2e410af6-9dc4-4ef7-bc3e-821a5970ed41

Colonial Canada Had Slavery For More Than 200 Years. And Yes, It Still Matters Today

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Canada's Enduring Legacy Of Power, Politics And Racism https://theclarion.ca/politicslaw/canadians-no-less-racist-than-americans/

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