Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

"China is... running its solar industry using forced labor linked to an ongoing genocide. That simply can’t be tolerated or ignored. We can’t save the planet by increasing the suffering of the world’s most vulnerable people."

Bravo @joshrogin @washingtonpost

https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1408190618585776133

Also from @washingtonpost today

“‘Because they are all customers of Hoshine, the solar value chain is almost completely contaminated by forced labor’”

washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…

As I have been reporting, it won’t be cheap or easy to relocate or replicate China’s solar industry

“The availability of cheap coal energy & labor in Xinjiang enabled Chinese polysilicon makers to dominate
solar industry, making it difficult for manufacturers to replace them”

“Solar companies are scrambling to source from suppliers elsewhere….

“Less attention has been paid to upstream products such as MGS, also known as silicon metal, which could taint other parts of the supply chain hitherto untouched by forced-labor claims.”

“According to state media reports, between 2015 and 2020 Hoshine hired workers from Uyghur-majority areas through labor fairs for ‘mobilizing surplus workers…’”

😬

“In April 2020, Hoshine hired workers in a Uyghur-majority district who would be given ‘patriotism training’ and ‘political assessments.’ Recruits received copies of the essential points of ‘Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era’”

In another report, officials were described as ‘relieving’ a couple in Dikan of their seven acres of grape fields. The couple were given jobs at Hoshine, about 30 miles away, as a mechanic and product inspector, according to the state-run Xinjiang Broadcasting Station.”