Maybe some places objectively qualify as sweatshops in the late 90’s, not but for children. In fact I struggle to imagine how a factory employing children would even work in China. Any kids with parents alive are clearly not going to be made to go into industrial manual labor, so it has to be orphans. What company would go out of their way to employ and feed such problematic inefficient and illegal kids instead of just hiring normal people?

It’s like the plastic rice propaganda all over again. Sounds like a possible claim until you realize the claim is that businessmen are deciding to spend energy and time to increase costs to make less desirable products with less profit at additional legal if not personal risks for themselves, with nothing to gain other than qualifying as an evil person…