A Strange Train is Coming to Italy from Xinjiang

May 13, 2024 | Bitter Winter | By Marco Respinti

This concern and request is the core of a joint letter to the Italian Ambassador to the United States, Mariangela Zappia, sent by the Uyghur Human Rights Project, the Uyghur American Association, and Safeguard Defenders. Based on scholarly studies and investigative journalism reports, the joint letter urges the Italian government to further investigate. “At the end of last year, democratic allies and international media applauded the Italian Government’s decision to rescind its 2019 Memorandum of Understanding on the Belt and Road Initiative with the People’s Republic of China. Allowing this first-ever […] train—as boasted by PRC propaganda outlets—to enter Italian territory filled with products that are the presumed product of forced labor would send a very stark and opposite message.”

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