The International Olympic Committee claims its Chinese Communist Party-linked uniform suppliers did not use Uyghur slave labor — at least not for the official Beijing Olympics garments.
The qualified claim came in response to a letter sent by Congressional-Executive Commission on China to the IOC asking about contracts with China’s Anta Sports and Hengyuanxiang Group. The CEEC, led by Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley and Democratic Rep. James McGovern and joined by Republican Rep. Christopher Smith, expressed concern the uniforms to be donned by Olympics officials — not athletes — may have been made with cotton harvested in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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