Walmart, Intel face backlash in China for avoiding imports from Xinjiang under new U.S. law
December 28, 2021 at 11:16 AM EST
America's largest companies are already facing a backlash from the passage of a new U.S. law that severely restricts imports from the Xinjiang region in China, where the U.S. government and human rights advocates say businesses use forced labor to produce essential building blocks of the modern global economy, like cotton-based fabrics and silicon.