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China demands US lift Xinjiang cotton, tomato import ban

by Joe McDONALD
| January 14, 2021 2:27 AM

BEIJING (AP) — China on Thursday demanded Washington drop a ban on cotton and tomato imports from its Muslim northwest over complaints they are produced by forced labor, which a spokesman dismissed as the “lie of the century.”

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