DJI Critics in House Respond to UFLPA Detention News
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., the lead sponsor of a bill to impose a 30% tariffs on Chinese drones, with a 5% escalation annually, as well as a bill banning Da-Jiang Innovations-made drones on U.S. communications infrastructure, reacted to the news that CBP is detaining DJI drones under suspicion they are made with Uyghur forced labor.
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House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar, R-Mich., who has supported these bills as well, joined her statement.
"For years [Chinese Communist Party]-drone manufacturer DJI has been rightfully blacklisted by the U.S. government for actively aiding the CCP in carrying out surveillance for their genocidal crimes against Uyghurs in Xinjiang," they wrote. "Now we have discovered that DJI is not only aiding this genocide but also forcing Uyghur slave labor in Xinjiang to manufacture the very drones used to surveil the human rights abuses against them in direct violation of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act."
The members said the U.S. needs to end its dependence on the drone manufacturer "and bolster American manufacturing by getting our unanimously passed Countering CCP Drones Act signed into law."