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You guys see the title of this video. This is about, I don't know what else to call it, encampments of labor encampments in China. Right now we're already worried about supplies being constrained due to the COVID-19 virus, coronavirus out in China, the outbreak and all that, the Wuhan province, but it's standing beyond that now and all this. There's a lot of concerns over PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X maybe not making launch. GDC was just canceled because of people worried about the COVID virus. Much company's backed out of that. Well, not really canceled. I guess GDC is planning to still happen at the end of summer. Some people are asking about E3 now, if E3 is going to cancel. And I think E3 is not going to do anything. They publicly said they're pushing forward with plans for E3. The ESA said that. So I don't think you need to worry about E3 being canceled unless COVID-19 is still a big thing happening in the middle of May, because then you're like a month out, at that point you've got to kind of push things if it's still a major concern because companies are going to drop out like flies. But what really is the big issue, if we're being completely honest here, is what's happening inside China and what's happening at the behest of the Chinese government. We're going to get this report directed from Nintendo Live because I think they do a good job summarizing it. I do have some additional information as well we'll cover. So let's just go head on over to Nintendo Live for this full report and then we'll go on with the additional details. So Nintendo is named and shamed as benefiting from the use of Chinese forced labor cans along with 83 other companies including Sony and Microsoft. A new report by the U.S. State Department funded Australian Strategic Policy Institute has discovered that at least 83 companies are directly or indirectly linked to Chinese forced labor camps when it comes to the creation of their products. And Nintendo is one of the firms named alongside Sony and Microsoft. The Chinese camps are where, and I'm going to butcher a lot of these pronunciations I apologize, the Uighur or Turkic minority ethnic group and other ethnic minorities are forced to work under unethical conditions as well as being subjected to intimidation and threats, constant surveillance, a ban on religious practices, political indoctrination, and excessive working hours. Their freedom of movement is also restricted and there are reports that threats are routinely made against family members if workers do not comply willingly. According to the report, which is supported by similar investigations including one by the BBC, these minorities have been transferred in huge numbers by the Chinese government from the far west region of the Xinjiang to factories across the country. It estimates that more than 80,000 Uighurs were transferred from Xinjiang to the factories between 2017 and 2019 alone, with some being sent directly from detention camps. The BBC report suggests that China is building massive camps for adults, while children as young as three are placed in equally huge camps nearby where they are told they can only speak Chinese. And this is kind of a chart showing some of the companies involved. So you have the Xinjiang Province in Okira County, Houtan is one of them 105 of the Uighurs transferred in 2018 from there to the Hibayong Precision Manufacturing Company, which then out ported to BYD, Mississippi, Gore Tech, DDK, and Toshiba directly. And then they went down to the the Dogen Young Electronic Company, which then outsources to much of places that indirectly lead to parts of me and made from Mitsubishi, Nintendo Panasonic, Hair, Sony, HB, Cisco, General Electric, I forget what this G is, Huawei, Microsoft, Samsung, Amazon, Oculus, Siemens, ZTE, and obviously 83 total companies involved. So it's a pretty big list. Those are just some of the biggest ones. The report claims that it exposes a new phase in China's social re-engineering campaign targeting minority citizens, revealing new evidence that some factories across China are using forced Uighur labor under a state sponsored labor transfer scheme that is tainting the global supply chain. While Nintendo is obviously not directly connected with these camps, it is reportedly using parts sourced by these camps for the production of its video game hardware. We get some additional information here from Reset Era. So here's what it says, BBC says, thousands of Muslims from China's Uighur minority group are working under coercive conditions at factories that supply some of the world's biggest brands. A new report says the Australian Strategic Policy Institute said this week, the next phase in China's re-education of Uighurs, China has already detained about a million Uighurs at an entainment camp punishing and indoctrinating them. And it says between 2017 and 2019, the ASPI, I think, tank estimates that more than 80,000 Uighurs were transferred out of the far western Xinjiang Autonomous Region to work in factories across China. It said some were sent directly to detention camps. ASPI said the Uighurs were moved through labor transfer schemes operating under central government policy known as Zinjiang Aid. According to the report, the factory is going to be part of the supply chain for 83 well-known global brands including Nike, Apple, and Dell. The report says that it's extremely difficult for Uighurs to refuse to escape the work assignments while the threat of arbitrary detention hanging around them. It's added that there was evidence of local governments and private brokers being paid a price per head by the Xinjiang government to organize the assignments, which ASPI describes as a new phase of the Chinese government ongoing repression of Uighurs. More updates about this here. Video game report highlights, on the 17th of May 2018, 105 Uighur workers were transferred from Keria County, Xinjiang to Hubei, Yuheng Precision Manufacturing Company, LTD in Xinjiang, Hubei Province. Hubei, the Precision Manufacturing Company, is a subsidiary of the Donghu Yingding electronics company and produces precision parts for electronics such as back lights and battery covers. According to their website, the Donghuang Yingding electronic company says the supply directly to BYD overtook all those companies I mentioned before. Foxconn is involved as well. As reported in late 2019, 560 Xinjiang workers were transferred to work in factories in central Henan Province, which includes Foxconn Technologies in the Zengzhu Hanan Province. Foxconn Technologies, a Taiwanese company, is the biggest contract electronics manufacturer in the world. Foxconn has supplied brands like Amazon, Apple, Dell, Google, HP, Hawaii, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and Xiaomi. Foxconn's Zengzhu Hanan Facility partly makes half of the world's iPhones and is the reason why the Zengzhu City is dubbed the iPhone City. Foxconn's website says their brands and marketing channels include Nokia and Sharp. This is obviously tough. I'm kind of at a loss for words. This is slave labor. I get that this is better than slaves in Africa or how slaves were treated in the US back in the day and across Europe. I get that this is slightly better treatment than we think about with traditional slavery, but let's call it what it is. This is modern-day slavery in 2020 and 2019 and 2018 and 2017 and however long this has been going on for, at least back to 2017, with the tariffs and everything that the US has put on products and how they're going to keep prices down, slave labor. How are they going to keep people working at these factories in poor conditions and cheaply slave labor? How are they going to keep the current governments in power in doctrine and slavery? It's pretty simple. When kids grow up only knowing one kind of life, what are they going to keep thinking that life is like? When my fiance was in Russia, she didn't go under internment camps or labor camps or anything, but the way the world worked over there when she was a kid, you didn't think there was a world outside Russia. You thought Russia was it. They didn't teach you about the rest back then. I don't know if it's different now, but that's kind of what's happening here in China is where now they're taking the children as young as age three and basically making them learn only one way of living and there is no other way of living beyond what they're shown and that's going to grow up to really form their minds and and make them fight vehemently for the current government establishment, not realizing that it's not supposed to be that way. This is a massive issue. I mean, at least they're not saying they're putting the children to work, but what's it matter if they're being raised to end up being people that are forced to work anyways. This is bad. I mean, I guess the blood diamonds are worse in Africa with the slaves, but this is in a more modern industrial country. This is bad and so many of our products are made in China. It's insane. You go to the store. I'm like looking at my desk. This audio technical mic, I believe, is assembled and made in China. The Corsair keyboard I have, pretty sure that's assembled and made in China. This iPhone, this is definitely assembled and made in China. My switch, definitely assembled and made in China. Or maybe I have the new inert model, so it might have been assembled in Taiwan or wherever Nintendo moved their factories to for North American production, but they still get the parts in it from China. So almost everything we have in life technology wise involves China. And now we're finding out that if you bought any new tech in the last five to 10 years or whatever, slave labor. I'm just really sickened by this news, sick to my stomach. I'm just gonna say that I almost got tears coming to my eyes. Like children are involved. This is just messed up. He thought the camps that we had going on with Trump were bad with immigrants like this is, this is a huge chunk of like a whole province basically of their country. I'm just gonna, I'm gonna say this, and I'll leave it at this because I care so much about human decency and human rights. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. I don't care if this delays PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, this is about human rights and people and slavery. I want you guys to try to build new relationships with companies outside of China, build new factories to make your nan flash to make your screens to make whatever whatever you are getting cheaply done in China. Since we can't trust them anymore, we can't trust the government, you can't trust the companies. So work with companies outside of China that aren't based in China, that maybe don't even have Chinese factories at all and get those products made elsewhere. It's going to lead to things being more expensive. We heard the PlayStation 5 price was around $450 just to make, oh cares if it rises to five or six hundred at this point. We're talking about human lives here. That's more important than the cost of a consumer good that we don't need. These are entertainment products, you know, even the phone. I don't need a fancy phone like this. I can get something that maybe costs just as much to be made in the US but whatever. It isn't as nice but who cares. We need to seriously implore Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and all of our favorite electronic companies to get out of China. It's just time for between COVID-19 already slowing down production and all this to force the slave labor. It's time. We need to be done with it and the things are still going to be made in China because it's cheap but we as people need to start considering what we're supporting here and there's always been issues. Fox kind of said issues in the past. There's always been issues but I don't think we realized how bad the issues are until this report came out. It's time. We need to encourage these companies to go build elsewhere, go build factories elsewhere. I don't care if it's in Mexico, I don't care if it's in Taiwan. Wherever they need to build it in, you know, another country that maybe isn't doing so hot but can, you know, provide cheap labor but that cheap labor is willing labor. Let's put it that way. Willing labor because it's better than not working at all and living on the street. We need to encourage these companies to go that route. Nintendo, please reconsider. I enjoy your products, I enjoy your games but we need to get your switches and other future hardware built somewhere else. It's probably easier for you to relocate the cart manufacturing and switch case manufacturing but to get these made, the parts that are in it, you need to find companies that aren't in China. It needs to happen now. We can't wait. I get there'll be a transition period. You know, you have contracts and stuff. I get that but transition as fast as you can please because at this rate, I don't know that I can buy a future Nintendo product when it comes out unless I know for sure they're not getting their parts from slave labor. And I'm not blaming Nintendo Sony and Microsoft because they could be blissfully, these aren't Chinese companies. They could be blissfully unaware of this was even happening but now that we know it's happening, it's time. It's time to get out. So please, I implore you, please do the right thing morally here. You know, Nintendo claims to be a company that cares about family and people. Okay, so show it. Show it and get the hell out of China. Anyways, I'm Nathan and Robert Jansson from Nintendo Prime. Let me know what you think about this story. I don't know how else to react to this. So let me know what you think down in the comments below. If I had a place to donate money to for charity, I'd think to you guys but what are we gonna, there's no, I don't want any money funneling into China. I don't trust any of the charities. I don't trust any of the government agencies. I don't trust anything that that's China related right now. And that sucks because I don't think the Chinese people are bad people. But there's bad people in power. I don't know what to do about that. We're talking about, you know, a third of the world's population living in one country and that country's government is endorsing and creating slavery. So, all right, folks, I'm Nathan and Robert Jansson from Nintendo Prime. Sorry about the sombre video. Maybe we'll have some happier news later today. But, you know, I'll catch you guys in the next video.