China's comparative advantage in clothing comes from long before there were any re-education camps in Xinjiang. The first phase of industrialization in China was based on clothing production. Compare China's exports in 1995 [1], which were heavily skewed towards clothing, to their exports in 2018 [2], which were much more heavily skewed towards electronics.

Xinjiang makes up only a tiny part of the Chinese economy, anyways. Xinjiang has 22 million people and exports barely $17 billion of goods per year. Guangdong has 113 million people and exports $440 billion of goods per year.

> In my opinion, we need trade rules that explicitly tax and tariff those countries who are only finding comparative advantages through exploitation and unethical activity.

That policy would lead to tariffs against most poor countries. I could imagine some unintended consequences there.

1. https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/chn/all/...

2. https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/chn/all/...