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The opening of an electric car showroom in China's Xinjiang territory has been criticized by a manufacturing group and a U.S. lawmaker, making it the latest American company to face scrutiny over its ties to a region where the Chinese government has been accused of detaining scores of Uyghur
An aerial view of the Shanghai Gigafactory on March 29, 2021.
The images are from the same company.
The new showroom was unveiled in a celebratory post on Chinese social media site Weibo.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the Chinese-language post said, "let us together launch Xinjiang on its electric journey."
There are more than two dozen other stores and service centers in mainland China and the semi-autonomous cities of Hong Kong and Macau.
The senator from Florida sponsored a bill that was signed by the president last year that restricts imports of U.S. goods from China.
In a statement to Forbes, the Alliance for American Manufacturing said that the decision was especially brazen.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations called for the shuttering of the showroom ofTesla, which they said was supporting genocide in China.
Forbes asked for comment fromTesla, but they didn't reply immediately.
China's government is committing a cultural genocide in the region. Alliance for American Manufacturing President Scott Paul said in a statement that anyone still doing business in the region is complicit.
The key background.
The Chinese government has been accused of detaining up to a million ethnic and religious minorities in a secretive network of reeducation camps. Some people are subjected to forced labor. China insists that its actions in Xinjiang are part of a counterterrorism scheme. The United States has accused China of committing acts of genocide in the western region of Xinjiang and imposed sanctions on some government entities. Human rights groups and politicians in the US have pressed companies to avoid doing business in the region, but companies like Nike and Intel have drawn backlash in China for trying to cut out Xinjiang from their supply chains.
There is a structure called the Tangent.
The country has been viewed as a key market for sales and manufacturing by the company since it delivered its first electric car to a customer eight years ago. The company sold more than 50,000 China-built cars per month in October and November, many of which were exported to other countries. In September, Musk said that he would continue investing in research and development in China. The company has occasionally run afoul of the government. Last year, the company recalled more than 200,000 cars in China due to concerns that drivers could accidentally turn on cruise control, and the country barred some military officials from driving the cars due to concerns that their cameras could tape sensitive locations.
The Center of U.S. Genocide Allegations is located in China's Xinjiang Region.
The company says it delivered a record number of electric vehicles.
