Bipartisan group of lawmakers urge Disney CEO to explain the company's connection with 'security and propaganda' authorities of China's Xinjiang region during the production of 'Mulan.'
The lawmakers, including former presidential candidate, a Republican senator who co-chairs the CECC, said information on Beijing's role in the detention of Uighurs in Xinjiang was all over the media before the filming of"Mulan."
"The decision to film parts of Mulan in cooperation with the local security and propaganda elements, offers tacit legitimacy to those perpetrators of crimes that may warrant the designation of genocide."China's foreign ministry has repeatedly denied the existencein the region, calling the facilities vocational and educational institutions and accusing what it calls anti-China forces of smearing its Xinjiang policy.
The lawmakers also asked Disney about the use of local labor, Uighurs or other ethnic minority labor,"as well as due diligence performed to ensure that no forced labor was used during the film's production."The Trump administration said this week it has prepared orders to block imports of cotton and tomato products from Xinjiang over the accusations of forced labor.
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