On Monday, Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) wrote letters to the Biden administration expressing concern over the Chinese-controlled online shopping app Temu, citing its connection to forced labor and international intellectual property theft — neither of which are new things for China.
Senator Cotton wrote:
“Temu’s goods are cheap not because of fair competition, but rather because of China’s familiar combination of intellectual-property theft, government subsidies, and human-rights abuses,” Cotton’s letter reads.
“For example, Temu directly copies Amazon storefronts and then sells knock-off Chinese versions of the product at a deeply discounted rate. Temu also likely benefits from the use of slave labor.”
Senator Rubio cited China’s abuse of the embattled Uyghur minority and how they are used as slave labor:
Rubio’s letter, dated Tuesday, asks…
