"A few Western countries and anti-China forces went all out to hype up the so-called 'forced labor' in Xinjiang's cotton-growing industry. The report was compiled with the help of "forced labor and supply chain experts fluent in Chinese, Uyghur and English." Its website shows the company's solar panels, for example, in solar energy farms in California and Arizona. The accelerating adoption of solar raises the stakes for ensuring that the industry's supply chain does not involve forced labor. Still, Xinjiang has become deeply intertwined with the global solar supply chain and fully cutting it out of the system would be difficult.

Source: CNN May 14, 2021 04:36 UTC