It’s a start, and a surprising one to have Dems support it. Of course it’s going to be wholly ineffective, anything that throws the qualifier “’s Xinjiang” after “China”, knowing that Beijing is running the slavery and genocide operation there isn’t going to make a bit of difference in the long run. If we push to close the consumer product factories there, the Chicoms will just use Uighur slave labor to do other things.
Not surprising at all that the Dems supported this. If the Uyghurs were Christians they’d have fought it tooth and nail.
After you filter thru all the fluff and pretty words you find out that in the end this bill pretty much just prohibits importing one thing, ‘materials used in the manufacture of solar cells’. That is what I deduced from reading several articles. I could easily be wrong but that was my conclusion.
So, who benefits from this? Who makes money by eliminating the competition on materials used in the manufacture of solar cells?
The Dems used to give tax money to their cronies to start up a solar panel company which quickly goes bankrupt. Are they moving on to doing the same thing for developing solar panel materials instead?
Since Xinjiang is closed province, what makes anyone imagine that anything made there won’t just be ‘relabeled’ to have been made elsewhere in China? No Chinese are allowed to enter without a minder, and certainly no foreigners. Sounds like this is a feel good bill, rather then a honest one, aimed at actually changing anything there.
And what impact will this have on the prices of goods in the USA? If any.
The Trump admin banned the import of cotton from Xingiang in December of last year.
There goes the dollar store.