RIGHT SPEAK: ICYMI: Trump’s Tariffs Are A Global War On Slave Labor: Trump didn’t wait for approval from Ivy League economists to act on what should be common sense: You don’t compete with slave labor, you crush it

Trump’s Tariffs Are A Global War On Slave Labor:

Trump didn’t wait for approval from Ivy League economists to act on what should be common sense: You don’t compete with slave labor, you crush it.

Have you ever wondered how China sells us a toaster for $30 and still makes a profit? Here’s the secret: It’s not innovation — it’s exploitation.

While global elites squawk about “free trade,” President Donald Trump has put his foot down and lifted the lid on what has let foreign nations eat our lunch: forced labor and modern-day slavery.

On April 2, 2025, Trump declared “Liberation Day” and imposed reciprocal tariffs on dozens of foreign countries, in part to stop America from turning a blind eye to countries that take advantage of the U.S. market by destroying domestic competition in favor of cheap imports. But Trump’s tariffs were not just economic, they were moral. Rather than relying on foreign countries, particularly China, that benefit from abusive labor practices, Trump put America first by deciding the U.S. must stop pretending inexpensive products come with no human cost.

Silent Genocide of Muslim Slaves in China

The Democrats, of course, lost their minds. The same cohort that spent Trump’s first term trying to smear the populist change-maker as a “racist” was outraged that he was doing something about real slavery.

During Trump’s first term, his administration repeatedly highlighted human rights abuses abroad, especially in regions like China’s Xinjiang province, where the Chinese Communist Party is running forced labor camps filled with Uyghur Muslims. More than a million Uyghurs and other Muslims have been detained by China and sent to reeducation camps in what is called the “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Zone” for a range of reasons, including attending religious services, having more than three kids, or texting verses from the Quran.

China forced many of its religiously and ethnically targeted workforce to toil away in factories, making products distributed and sold across the globe. Muslim slaves in China produce countless store shelves worth of goods, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, such as textiles, hair products, and aluminum, among many other things. They get extremely low pay, can’t contact or visit their families (unless, in some circumstances, they are heavily surveilled by the government), and they can’t leave.

In June 2020, President Trump signed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, a bill sponsored by then-Sen., now-Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. This legislation required the president to issue sanctions to hold China accountable for its human rights abuses. In one of its final acts, the first Trump administration said China was committing “genocide” against the Uyghurs and other Muslim populations, adding that Chinese officials were “engaged in the forced assimilation and eventual erasure of a vulnerable and religious minority group.”