Raja Update 5/9

 

Dear Sandeep,

We hope all is well with you and your family, and that you are safe and healthy. 

This week, Congressman Raja joined José Díaz-Balart on MSNBC to discuss his investigation into the alleged use of forced Uyghur labor by large U.S. companies in his role as Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on China. The Congressman explained to José, "There is a region called Xinjiang in the Northwest corner of China, and there the Uyghur people are facing a genocide. Not only that, but they are being forced to work in factories to produce goods for various supply chains...We have a law that was passed in a bipartisan way that prohibits the importation of any goods from that province. Unfortunately, what we have found is that various companies have tried to circumvent that law, and Nike and other companies were identified as potential violators of that law at a hearing we recently had in Congress." 

Congressman Raja also joined colleague Rep. Mike Gallagher on CNBC to discuss the alleged use of forced Uyghur labor by large U.S. and China-based companies. Congressman Raja said, "I think folks like Tim Cook and others need to do two things. One, is they need to increasingly think about what does it mean to have redundant supply chains that don't necessarily involve sourcing all of your stuff from the PRC, and that means potentially moving it back to the USA to manufacture some of these items...[Second, they] are actually people the CCP might be listening to, and I think they should use their voice with regard to some of the issues we care about so much." The Congressman added, "Folks here in the U.S are going to have to think hard about their supply chains and their connections the the PRC, because at the end of the day, the CCP is a strategic adversary and competitor to us, and we have to protect our values and our interests even at the same time that we engage them."

On Thursday, Congressman Raja hosted an interfaith breakfast in Schaumburg with more than 50 suburban leaders and members of various religious, ethnic and minority groups in attendance to discuss how to help keep faith communities safer in the face of the nationwide rise in hate crimes in recent years. At the breakfast, the Congressman spoke about his Hate Crimes Commission Act—legislation he has introduced each of the last seven years that would require the federal government to study and measure acts of hate targeting different groups. "Sadly, in our own region, we've seen instances of discrimination that have been perpetrated against members of different faiths...We are united today in our condemnation of these acts of discrimination, prejudice, hate and bigotry toward anybody," said Congressman Raja. "We have to be willing to be courageous in having some of those uncomfortable conversations."

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