Cheap, poisonous and dangerous data octopus: Now politicians demand ban of Chinese fashion giant Shein

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Chinese cheap fashion group Shine is populating Europe with fast fashion. The brand has been heavily criticized for copying competitor designs, tolerating poor working conditions and delivering poor quality. Generation Z doesn’t seem to care. 200 million people downloaded the app and gave up their data in return. With a few clicks, they order clothes and shoes that they will only wear a few times. Because the quality is bad. Or Shein has already designed a new collection.

Shein is currently the world’s largest online fashion company. And it’s the most used shopping app, as NZZ wrote. It replaced Amazon as #1. No wonder at dirt cheap prices! T-shirts can be bought for a few francs, shoes are not much more expensive. There is no postage charge on orders of CHF 9.90 or more. At these prices, it is not surprising that several times toxic substances are found in the items.

Beijing spy tool?

Shein’s size is intimidating. It is even seen as a threat to national security in the United States. Doubt: The online company could act as a spy tool for Beijing. In the meantime, there are even calls for a ban on the Chinese fashion company. Among other things, due to data collection and forced labor. The company is said to be under the control of the Chinese Communist Party.

One thing is clear to the critics: By downloading the Shein app, you open the door to “knowing everything about their own life” for the Chinese. That’s the real price you pay for cheap clothes, according to NZZ. Conservative US politicians go one step further. Shein’s data collection matches that of the secret services. And this could not have happened without the consent of the Chinese regime.

Have human rights been violated?

The company plans to go public in the fall. Members of Congress are urging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to require Shein to provide assurances that forced labor will not be used in the manufacture of its products. Shein uses cotton from China’s Xinjiang region to make her clothes. There Beijing brutally oppresses the Muslim Uighur minority.

Shein claims to the US media that he has no suppliers in Xinjiang and that he respects human rights. But Bloomberg writes that lab tests have shown that the garments contain cotton from Xinjiang. (be)

Source :Blick