US Retail Giants Stop Selling Chinese Surveillance Tech Linked to Xinjiang

US Retail Giants Stop Selling Chinese Surveillance Tech Linked to Xinjiang
A mix of ethnic Uyghur and Han shopkeepers hold large wooden sticks as they are trained in security measures in the far western Xinjiang Province, China, on June 27, 2017. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
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Two home-improvement retail giants, Home Depot and Lowe’s, and electronic retail superstore Best Buy have recently removed products made by two Chinese companies with ties to human rights abuses in China.

Chinese video surveillance technology makers Lorex and Ezviz are both owned by companies headquartered in China that were added to the U.S. trade blacklist in 2019, over Beijing’s treatment of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities.