Why is Washington using forced labor claims to hit global trade?

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  Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.

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  This is The Point.

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  Forced labor in the United States?

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  The Trump administration says yes.

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  Yet, at the same time, it has rolled out tariffs to punish other economies for allegedly failing to stop.

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  Forced labor.

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  On July the 24th, the U.S.'s Trade Representative Office,

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  or USTR, announced new tariffs ranging from 10 percent to 12.5 percent on 60 economies for allegedly putting U.S.

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  Businesses at a disadvantage.

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  China is among the economies that face the higher rate of 12.5 percent, along with many other developing countries

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  and allies who were not Many of them were not given any special treatment.

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  Yet the same Trump administration pointing the finger at others has admitted

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  that forced labor exists and persists in the United States.

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  Should they be looking closer to home?

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  Or maybe it's not really about labor protection.

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  So what exactly is behind these new tariffs?

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  Welcome to this edition of The Point with me, Liu Xin, an opinion show coming to you live from Beijing.

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  I'm pleased to be joined from New York by Anthony Chan, Global Chief.

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  Economist at chen economics and former chief economist at jp morgan chase from manila the philippines by sebastian

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  content geopolitics analyst and asia global fellow at the university of hong kong and here in the studio

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