Search results for H&M in the Didi Chuxing ride-hailing app for all of China's major cities yielded no results on Friday (March 26). - Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters): China's top ride-hailing app dropped Swedish fashion retailer H&M from its listings as Chinese celebrities stopped endorsing foreign labels in a growing uproar over Western accusations of forced labour in Xinjiang.
H&M faced a public backlash in China when social media users in the country circulated a statement the company made last year announcing it would no longer source cotton from Xinjiang after reports of the use of forced labour by Uighur Muslims.
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