Elon Musk: Tesla criticised after opening Xinjiang showroom

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The opening ceremony was posted online byTesla, where people were shown holding signs.

The opening of a showroom in China for electric car makerTesla has been criticized in the US.

The showroom was opened on New Year's Eve in the city of Urumqi.

In China, the move was welcomed.

The western region of China has been accused of employing slavery and genocide.

Republican senator Marco Rubio, who sponsored a bill signed into law by President Joe Biden in December that requires firms to prove that goods imported from Xinjiang were not produced with forced labour, spoke out about the decision byTesla.

The Chinese Communist Party are covering up genocide and slave labour in the region.

Scott Paul, the president of the Alliance of American Manufacturing industry body, said that any company doing business in Xinjiang is complicit in the cultural genocide taking place there. The actions ofTesla are especially despicable.

The BBC asked for comment from the company.

The opening of the new showroom for the electric car company was well received by users of China's Weibo social media platform.

One user thanked them for expanding in Xinjiang. One person said, "Tesla supports the development and construction of Xinjiang, unlike some companies."

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A Chinese lion dance was performed at the opening ceremony.

Intel apologized late last year after a backlash over a letter it sent to suppliers.

There were calls for a boycott of the company's letter.

Intel was not the first company to be under pressure to comply with sanctions related to Xinjiang.

Nike and H&M faced a backlash last year after they expressed concern about the use of Uyghur forced labour in cotton production.

There are allegations of forced labour and possibly genocide in the Uyghur population of China's Xinjiang region.

In December 2020, the British Broadcasting Corporation published an investigation showing that China was forcing hundreds of thousands of minorities, including Uyghurs, into manual labour in the cotton fields of western China.

Beijing has denied the claims before.

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Who is the man? Meet the man behind the two companies.

There is a region of the world called Xinjiang.
Musk is the CEO of the company.
It is a car called theTesla
China.
The Uighurs are from China.