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Climate Is Now a US Culture War Issue
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They're specifically using forced labor from Uyghurs for solar manufacturing. It's a problem, and one that's complicating the ability of China to export solar panels.
There's no actual evidence for this claim. If you want to see actual forced labour then look at US prison system. US has the highest incarceration rate in the world and prisoners are used as literal slave labour. Meanwhile, the smear by US regime is also having very little actual impact on China's ability to export solar panels.
If it's not real, China can open up the region to outsiders, and let workers communicate freely without monitors present or spyware on their phones.
China has opened up the region to outsiders plenty of people have visited it including western news agencies. Here's one example. You're just regurgitating propaganda your regime is feeding you, there is no evidence for it. Meanwhile, we have lots of concrete evidence for precisely the sorts of atrocities US accuses China of happening in US. Maybe focus on what's happening in your own country.
Lol.
That's a great example of the language western propagandists like to use that resonates with people like you. However, once you read past the spin it's pretty clear that they're not able to find any tangible evidence of repression they're claiming. Of course, this kind of narrative works because Americans are primed to believe it without question. I guess thinking that China uses slave labour in Xinjiang is what helps you somehow rationalize why US isn't doing anything to transition off fossils.
Official policy of the United States is to actually get off fossil fuels
And legislation to get the country a chunk of the way there passed last year
So no, not nothing.
In actual tangible terms US has done very little so far, especially when compared to what China has done already.