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There is a boycott of H&M, a global fashion brand, in China.
H&M made a statement about the human rights issue of the Xinjiang Uighurs a year ago, and Chinese netizens took a belated problem.
Correspondent Lim Kwang-bin from Beijing covered it.
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This is a statement made last year by Swedish fashion brand H&M on discrimination against the Xinjiang Uighurs.
At the time, H&M said, “We express our deep concern over reports of forced labor in Xinjiang and accusations of discrimination against ethnic minorities.”
However, as the Chinese Communist Youth Group recently posted this statement on social media after a year has passed, Chinese netizens have begun to criticize H&M.
Amidst China’s conflict with Western countries, including the European Union, EU, for the suppression of the Xinjiang Uyghurs, a boycott was immediately followed.
<허화 / 중국 학생> “Looking at Xinjiang’s distrust of cotton, I thought that I should buy Chinese products instead of buying those foreign brand products in the future.”
All H&M products were removed from China’s leading online shopping malls, and H&M stores were not searched in the map search application.
It is a large shopping mall in downtown Beijing.
This mall also has an H&M store, but it doesn’t seem to have a direct impact, such as a drop in customers, as it does online.
However, security personnel were deployed around the store to prepare for unforeseen circumstances, and the vigilance was strengthened.
Another global brand, such as Nike, that gave similar opinions to H&M on reports related to forced labor in Xinjiang, also emerged as boycott targets.
Some netizens in China also expressed their anger by posting videos of burning Nike shoes on social media.
When public opinion worsened, some brands, such as ZARA, which had been boycotted, retracted their previous position regarding kidneys, and began to evolve by announcing that they are still using kidney cotton.
<치우지신 / 대학원생> “I think China has become very strong, and I am happy to see the patriotism of so many people through this work.”
After the Alaska Sino-American talks, sales of so-called “patriotic goods” in China’s online shopping malls surged, while the People’s Daily, an agency of the Communist Party, is stimulating the feelings of netizens by launching a campaign saying, “I support kidney cotton”.
This is Yonhap News TV from Beijing.
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