It's not exactly that these companies like to use forced-labor and need it to benefit from it.<p>What's the real deal, as I see it is:<p>(1) The US politicians and part of the business world decided at a trade war with China.<p>(2) For this end, they use the Uyghur situation (and others) as a pressure point on China (selectively as always of course: they will ignore or even fund the same or worse attrocities if done by "allies", or for that matter, themselves.<p>(3) US Companies with big presence there are caught in the crossfire. They have to cut parts of their supply chain immediately, whether it has anything to do with Uyghurs or not, to be compliant. So they understandably ask for check time extensions, and so on. This is presented as them pushing for "forced labour" (which they don't: they make do with the regular sweatshop labor and "you're lucky to have a job, now work 12 hour shifts and sleep in our dorms" exploitation, capitalist style, which they use domestically and abroad).