Intel has apologized to its Chinese partners and customers after informing them that it will no longer be employing labour or items from the country’s Xinjiang province. The corporation has since removed the comment that sparked the outrage. Several nations, notably the United States, have imposed restrictions on international commerce with Xinjiang due to China’s treatment of the region’s minority Muslim Uyghur population. The United States has imposed a restriction on imports from Xinjiang unless firms can demonstrate that items were made without the use of forced labor. The suppression of the minority Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang has been dubbed…