A ground breaking report released today by Global Right Compliance (GRC) has exposed alarming ties between Western companies and the use of forced labour in China’s critical minerals sector, particularly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The findings intensify growing concerns over the ethical sourcing of essential minerals such as titanium, lithium, beryllium, and magnesium, which are vital to the global tech, automotive, and defense industries. The report, based on an extensive review of Chinese government shipping records, policy documents, academic articles, and open-source data, is the first to directly examine how the global supply chain of critical minerals may be tainted by state-mandated forced
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