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Proof: How US sanctions forced Xinjiang’s cotton industry to build a survival model

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{"first_seen":"2026-09-30T23:50:23Z","headline":"How US sanctions forced Xinjiang’s cotton industry to build a survival model","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"scmp","url":"https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3369294/us-sanctions-forced-xinjiang-cotton-adapt-survival-comes-cost?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage","v":1}

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SHA-256

7cb122fca641540d16218529b23fd5c0138711fa7c2d8836bfbd9fcd556bc6bc

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Submitted to the OpenTimestamps calendars 2026-09-30 23:52 UTC; waiting for a Bitcoin block (usually a few hours).

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-30 23:59 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:no-request.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-7cb122fca641.json prints 7cb122fca641540d16218529b23fd5c0138711fa7c2d8836bfbd9fcd556bc6bc. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-7cb122fca641.json and headline-7cb122fca641.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-7cb122fca641.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

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