A Chinese company named Hikvision, which is on a United States trade blacklist due to its support for the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) brutal oppression of China’s Uyghur minority, has been rewarded with a chair on the United Nations Global Compact. The purpose of the Global Compact is to “support U.N. goals” and implement “universal sustainability principles” related to “human rights, labor, the environment, and anti-corruption.”
Hikvision has promised, on the human rights front, to do better. It is unclear whether the Chinese company was willing to go to the extent of a pinkie-swear.
Hikvision’s work in its native China, however, tells a different story.
The company’s cameras are a crucial part of the Chinese Communist Party’s surveillance system used to track and detain Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Hikvision—which reports to the Chinese government through its largest shareholder, the…
