Two main things are at stake if sourcing cotton from Xinjiang, China, would stop tomorrow: the fashion industrialists have to a find other suppliers of cotton at the same/similar price, for the rate of profit is key, and a risk that shops in the West and elsewhere would be unable to provide apparels at an affordable price for consumers. At the end of the day, this type of complicity has been going on for decades.
“Virtually entire fashion industry complicit in Uighur forced labour”
“Virtually entire fashion industry complicit in Uighur forced labour”