Amazon link to Uighur crackdown could draw Bezos into clash with Biden

Published February 11, 2021 10:31pm ET



Biden administration officials and senior lawmakers plan to scrutinize U.S. corporations like Amazon that do business with Chinese technology companies, as Beijing’s human rights abuses stoke controversy over partnerships in that sector.

At issue is the challenge of economic entanglements between the world’s two largest economies, weighed against outrage over Chinese government efforts to use technology to control the mainland population and steal strategic advantages in an intensifying rivalry with Washington. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s team is still developing a plan for managing those challenges, but U.S. lawmakers are growing impatient with American economic titans who disregard China’s atrocities against the Uighur Muslims.

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