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‘Responsible’ investors may have backed police-state surveillance in China

Shares of Hikvision, whose cameras have been installed in detention facilities for the Uighur minority in China’s Xinjiang Province, appear in dozens of ESG funds

‘Responsible’ investors may have backed police-state surveillance in China
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Some rank-and-file investors who thought they were putting money into socially responsible companies may in fact have been funding parts of an Orwellian surveillance regime — in China.

A number of ESG-oriented money managers — those who employ environmental, social and corporate-governance screens to identify investments — hold shares of China-based Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology.

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