“In the eight months since inauguration, the Biden administration has been hard at work frantically unraveling President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies.
Amid the flurry of executive fiats and new agency rules, President Joe Biden’s ban on solar panel materials from certain Chinese companies is the first move we’ve seen that doesn’t put America dead last. It should be followed by even stronger reforms to crack down on environmental recklessness and human rights abuses by our trading partners.
The green energy movement is synonymous with dependence on foreign imports. Nearly 80 percent of the world’s solar panels are imported from China, over half of which come from the Xinjiang region. For too long, renewable energy activists have turned a blind eye to the well-documented forced labor and human rights abuses in their supply chain. The Chinese regime’s own publications detail the “placement” of over 2 million Uyghur and Kazakh people in forced labor programs, particularly in the solar industry. Every manufacturer of polysilicon, the main component of most solar panels, in the Xinjiang region participates in these barbaric programs.”
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Isaac, Jason. The Cannon 12 August 2021.