VIP Class Notes (Tibo)

An organization said they boycott Xinjiang cotton.
an organization call Better Cotton Initiative decided to stop using it because of alleged forced labour / because there are allegations of forced labour.

I think at least one year. there are a lot of brand ambassadors says they will not work with those brands on Weibo. And they cancel the contracts.
Because one year ago Adidas faced the same problem so many superstars and spokesperson know how to sign the contract and put an issue about if you get bad reputation we can cancel the contract without any penalty.

Haikou doesn’t have much history  / cultural heritage

once such thing happen they can cancel the contract and announce they will not work for this brand again.
Before Adidas case spokespeople had less experience.

the website had may languages and they put cantonese as another language.

I saw one actor had a lifetime deal and he cancelled the contract with Adidas and he will have to pay a penalty of over 60,000,000 .

Chinese people it is Chinese sovereignty infringement

some people have too much money to waste
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An organization said they will boycott Xinjiang cotton.
an organization call Better Cotton Initiative decided to stop using it because of alleged forced labour / because there are allegations of forced labour.

I think it will take at least one year for things to calm down / go back to normal.
There are a lot of brand ambassadors who said /announced they will not work with those brands on Weibo. And they canceled the contracts.

One year ago Adidas faced the same problem so many spokespeople know how to sign the contract and put/add a specific clause about if you get bad reputation / a scandal we can cancel the contract without any penalty.

Haikou doesn’t have much history  / cultural heritage

Once such thing happen they can cancel the contract and announce they will not work for this brand again.
Before in the case of Adidas case spokespeople had less experience.

The website had many languages and they put cantonese as another language.

I saw one actor had a lifetime deal and he cancelled the contract with Adidas and he will have to pay a penalty of over CNY 60,000,000 .

Chinese people think it is Chinese sovereignty infringement

some people have too much money to waste

Vocabulary

Burj Al Arab (n) famous hotel in Dubai
I took a picture of the Burj Al Arab

Burj Khalifa (n) top tower in Dubai
I visited the Burj Khalifa

Sovereign (n) 元首
In the past the king was the sovereign of the land.

Sovereignty (n) : supreme power
The king has total sovereignty on the life and death of his subjects

Infringement (n) breaking the rules
They used Mikey Mouse without asking Disney, they were sued for copyright /IP infringement

to sue (v) : to go to court
They sued the company

limited edition (n) limited number of something
The collaboration piece is a limited edition, there are only 1,000 in the world

collaboration / collab (n) : when 2 brands or 2 artists work together
supreme has man collaborations with other luxury brands

to collaborate (v)

penalty (n) punishment
There was a penalty for cancelled the contract early

clause (n) 条款
they add a clause in the contract to make it easy to cancel in case of a scandal

alleged (adj) 被控的
The alleged killer goes to court today

allegation (n)
He will have to defend against the allegations

cotton (n) 棉花
It is made of cotton

Grammar

if it is a specific number no s
He has to pay 60 million

if it is not specific you use s
He will have to pay millions in penalty