China rebuke

Britain accused China yesterday of committinghumanrights abuses “on an industrial scale” against Uighur Muslims as the Foreign Office announced measures to stopuk firms using products sourced from Uighur labour camps. Dominicraab, the Foreign Secretary, said Beijing wasguilty of “truly harrowing” repression of the Uighur minority, with mosques destroyed, women forcibly sterilised andwidespread use of forced labour tomakechinese goods for export. In amove likely to see relations with Beijinghit anew low, he saidnewexport controls would help prevent British firms— knowingly or otherwise— from using products sourced from Uighur slave labour camps. The Uighur homeland of Xinxiang province is amajor global cotton supplier.