Chinese prisoner’s ID card apparently found in lining of Regatta coat

You want to know why China is so absurdly cheap for everything? This is part of the reason why. I wonder how many prison mining camps, prison garment/textile camps, etc. Are operating with the sole goal of keeping costs as absolutely rock bottom as possible. China is making a killing by undercutting the global market on costs for just about everything.

Slave labor?

For all we know it could be the exact same thing the US does with our prisoner work programs.

So if we're going to call out China, can we please stop doing it here too?

If Regatta was truly committed to zero prison labor and zero slave labor, then they wouldn't have any products made in China.

I was talking to a relative about Temu the other day, "How can they sell shit so cheap? Like, there's got to be slavery involved somewhere."

Chinese prison labor bad. Western prison labor good.

I hope this is all part of some psy opp to fuck with the west. I too hope to find a prize sewn inside my clothes and really recapture that cereal box feeling.

Despite feeling uneasy, the woman disposed of the card and “thought nothing more of it”.

Who here would actually throw away the ID?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The card was found inside a plastic holder embossed with the words: “Produced by the Ministry of Justice prisons bureau.”

The prison identified on the ID card found in the Regatta coat says on its website that it specialises in clothing production and the processing of electronics components.

Last month, the French broadcaster Arte aired a documentary about a handwritten Chinese letter that was found inside a pregnancy test bought in Paris.

The finding in the Regatta coat is unusual in that it identifies a specific individual, which risks repercussions for that person, and did not come with a note.

Sarah Brooks, Amnesty International’s deputy regional director for China, said: “Companies have a responsibility to do much more to guarantee their supply chains are free of human rights abuses – wherever they operate in the world.

The mere existence of allegations of forced or compulsory labour must at a minimum alert companies to the risk of having links to these abuses.”

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Definitely Primark 2.0.

@throws_lemy

Yeah let's focus on Chinese prison labour, ignoring the US's much higher incarceration rate, and the literal genocide they're funding right now.