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I have no information on China's use of slave labor but I can tell you that America allows business to "hire" their predominately BIPOC/immigrant prisoners for significantly lower than minimum wage. Considering these prisons can be and often are private you have enterprises buying and selling people and their labor for profit. Is this not slavery on a mass scale? Does America not purposefully maintain a disproportionately large prison population per capita and do everything it can to make sure it stays that way? Have you ever wondered why this country's solution to its problems is always more cops and more guns?
How can we even criticize another country for their use of forced labor when we have done nothing to address our own. How can you be certain China is even doing that and it isn't just deflection by US capitalist to distract us from much more pressing domestic issues. How can you trust a capitalist and the media conglomerates they all own to critique a socialist society in good faith?
In an alternative universe where Europe isn't US-dependent, they may be sanctioning the US for racialized prison labor because their tech companies can't compete.