Uniqlo to step up controls on China suppliers

It's funny! Apple was accused of the same thing a couple of years ago and it caused an international outrage. However, the almighty Japanese company 'UNIQLO' gets involved ina similar situation and it barely even raises an eyebrow.

China is the textile mill of the modern world and textile production produces a huge percentage of the pollution the rest of the world complains about. Therefor, the next time you want to have a rant about China's pollution problems have a look at how many of your clothes and other materials were produced in China and blame yourself.

The Chinese government should act, hypocrisy seems to go hand in hand with the cynicism in which the employment ministry's incessant demand to corner the global textile and clothing manufacturing means of production.

Uniqlo equally seems to dispense with any pretence of a moral compass when it comes to a duty of care to the employment practices of how these garments are produced.

Well,move to Vietnam or India,then China will stop complaining.

“The root cause of the problem is low-cost competition worldwide,” said Ito. “Uniqlo is a champion of this market, especially in the garment industry. But many other companies might have this problem.”

The problem is rather companies like those which are killing the high quality competitors, there is nothing to be proud to be champion of the cheap labour market.

Why not place the blame where it belongs? On corrupt Chinese companies.

The CCP sought to be the cheap labor capital of the world, so I see nothing wrong with chickens coming home to roost.

China is the textile mill of the modern world and textile production produces a huge percentage of the pollution the rest of the world complains about. Therefore, the next time you want to have a rant about China's pollution problems have a look at how many of your clothes and other materials were produced in China and blame yourself.

Excellent point. One of my best Japanese friends was fond of ranting and raving about "made in China" and how it was killing the world. One day I advised her to remove half of her clothes, because 50% of them were sourced in China. She was so shocked that she never complained again (and as far as I know, she never stopped buying clothes again, either).

Actually, the sweatshops are moving west and southwest, where the sweat is even cheaper.