How are products blatantly labeled as from Xinjiang being sold on U.S. supermarket shelves?
One weekend in March, a casual shopper in an Asian supermarket in Falls Church, Virginia, came across a surprising discovery in the fruit aisle.
Innocuously labeled “SWEET DATES” in English, it was the Chinese that caught her eye: 兵团红红枣 — “Bingtuan Red red dates.”
Bingtuan is another name for the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC): the Chinese state-run paramilitary conglomerate with sprawling powers in government, prison management, media, an
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