{"id":158202,"date":"2026-09-30T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158202"},"modified":"2026-09-30T22:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:00:13","slug":"us-sanctions-forced-xinjiang-cotton-to-adapt-but-survival-comes-at-a-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158202","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions forced Xinjiang cotton to adapt, but survival comes at a cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe fields in Xinjiang\u2019s Awati county \u2013 a cotton hub hit by US sanctions \u2013 were nearly ready for the October harvest.<br \/>\nYusup Molamaiti, a 36-year-old technician, recalled what it was like manually planting and harvesting 37 mu (about 2.5 hectares or 6 acres) of scattered plots of land.<br \/>\n\u201cPlanting a single mu took up to three hours with two people laying plastic film by hand,\u201d he said. Harvesting would lock his family into year-round labour, yielding just 250-300kg (551-661lbs) per mu.<br \/>\nToday, his&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3369294\/us-sanctions-forced-xinjiang-cotton-adapt-survival-comes-cost?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe fields in Xinjiang\u2019s Awati county \u2013 a cotton hub hit by US sanctions \u2013 were nearly ready for the October harvest. Yusup Molamaiti,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}