There is a strong faction within China that has definitely strongly right wing. China is a ‘no party’ system, where factions of all positions form the ruling government. This is very evident in the ruling bodies of many of the provinces, where many ‘Communist party’ governance bodies are very right-wing in many aspects. But overall, the general push in China is to more leisure time and a better work-life balance in the major high wealth cities. Forced labor does not make sense in a country with more workers than jobs available.
But please, explain exactly what your notion is of ‘forced labor’ in China? How is it different from, say, the labor practices of the ‘right to work’ States like Alabama, where the wages in a lot of workplaces are basically poverty-level, there is no State limit on hours worked or State minimum wage, and you have to work to survive? I really do not believe that those shouting ‘forced labor’ really have any concept of what it is, and generally apply the term as a general ‘talking point’ against the opposition. ‘Forced labor’ and ‘poor working conditions’ are not the same. Unions think ALL non-union non-management jobs are ‘forced labor’, because the worker has no say in the working conditions.
In Alabama, if there were no federal labor law, there would be no law at all. https://labor.alabama.gov/Wage_and_Hour_Info.pdf
I am permanently for defending the truth. I can quote very similar examples of American firms operating in Africa and subjecting the workers to similar or worse, and that is in their own country. There have been convictions in Canada where farm labor using immigrants has been subjected to similar conditions. Labor investigators have found similar situations in the construction industry in Canada using immigrant labor fro Eastern European countries. The American news is constantly describing similar conditions among undocumented laborers. Is that ‘forced labor’ or ‘abused labor’ or just plain ‘taking advantage of the disadvantaged’? Without unions, such conditions, even though illegal, would be a lot more common in Canada and America. In Brazil, there are currently 169 other companies in the same blacklist. Bear in mind, the abuses at this construction site, if it in fact they actually happened, were done right under the watch of the Brazilian government. And there is no reliable evidence that this activity, if it actually occurred, was sanctioned by the executives of the company itself, in China. Once BYD was informed of the conditions, it severed its relation with the contractor. And how about all of those American apparel firms that contracted production to firms in Pakistan and Bangladesh that used far worse labor conditions - none of them were ‘locked out’ of the American market.