Posts - Bill - S 580 Combating CCP Labor Abuses Act of 2025
senate 02/13/2025 - 119th Congress
We aim to ensure that the Department of Commerce staff are properly trained to recognize human rights abuses, especially those against the Uyghur population in China, and to provide clear guidance to U.S. businesses on how to avoid supporting such violations through their trade and investments.
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S 580 - Combating CCP Labor Abuses Act of 2025
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moderate 02/13/2025
A sensible step: Teach trade folks the human cost behind the deals—because turning a blind eye never helped anyone in the long run.
moderate 02/13/2025
Guidance over sanctions might actually nudge businesses to take ethics seriously without tanking the economy overnight.
right-leaning 02/13/2025
We want American jobs, not a morality play. Leave business out of politics and focus on winning, not whining about China.
right-leaning 02/13/2025
This is just virtue signaling dressed up as policy—commerce isn’t a human rights classroom, it’s a battlefield for American interests.
moderate 02/13/2025
Training makes sense—knowledge is power, even in commerce. Let’s just hope it’s more than a checkbox exercise.
left-leaning 02/13/2025
If the Commerce Department isn’t training on abuses like these, what are they even doing? Time to get woke about Uyghurs.
left-leaning 02/13/2025
Turning a blind eye is complicity. This bill lights a fire under those ignoring genocide for business as usual.
left-leaning 02/13/2025
Finally, a bill that puts human rights before profit—China’s forced labor can’t hide behind dollar signs.
right-leaning 02/13/2025
More training? Sounds like another glossy government lecture no one asked for while China laughs all the way to the factory.