Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

You'd think that a field dedicated to studying human behavior and its consequences would

have a handle on racism, but economics is not only unrepresentative in its racial makeup,

but it's fallen short in explaining how racism arises in the first place.

And before the pandemic, if you asked a suite what Danes are like, you'd probably have

heard fun but feckless. A dain would have told you Swedes are uptight, but the effects

of Sweden's hands-off COVID-19 response has upended those stereotypes.

Over the past three years, in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, authorities have thrown

an estimated one million people into a new gulag. Most of them are weegers, an ethnic minority

that is predominantly Muslim. Their internment, their so-called re-education, constitutes the

largest arbitrary roundup seen since the Second World War. Reports of abuses abound in

the province, which is home to 10 million weegers, forced labor, a thoroughly or well-earned

surveillance state, and last week a new study claiming that Chinese authorities are forcibly

sterilizing women in an apparent bid to limit the weeger population, Beijing called the

New Allegations Baseless. The Trump administration had already blacklisted several dozen companies

deemed complicit in the atrocities in Xinjiang, and last month signed the Weeger Human Rights

Policy Act. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went further, after authorities

seized 13 tons of products suspected to have been made with human hair that originated

in Xinjiang.

Today, the United States Department of State, along with Treasury, Commerce, and DHS, are

issuing a business advisory to companies with supply chain links to entities complicit

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