NYT Column Omits Fact That China's 'Green Transition' Is Built on Backs of Slaves

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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The New York Times ran a column Monday 
applauding China’s green energy transition without mentioning that slave 
labor has played a massive role in the country’s progress on that front.

The column—written by David Wallace-Wells under the headline “What Happens 
if China Stops Trying to Save the World?”—gives China great credit for 
scaling up green energy manufacturing and installation while asserting 
that the American transition to less carbon-intensive energy is lagging by 
comparison.

However, Wallace-Wells failed to mention in his piece that China’s green 
industry is powered with slave labor from Uyghur Muslims and other 
persecuted minorities.

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“Consider solar power, which is presently dominating the global green 
transition and giving the world its feel-good story. In 2023, the world 
including China installed 425 gigawatts of new solar power; the world 
without China installed only 162 gigawatts,” Wallace-Wells writes. “China 
accounted for 263 gigawatts; the United States accounted for just 33. As 
recently as 2019, China was installing about one-quarter of global solar 
capacity additions; last year, it managed 62 percent more than the rest of 
the world combined. Over those same five years, China grew its amount of 
new added capacity more than eight times over; the world without China 
didn’t even double its rate.”

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The Chinese solar industry, which dominates the global solar market, has 
been accused by the U.S. government and third-party analysts of taking 
advantage of slave labor. The State Department also published a July 2022 
report that strongly suggests Chinese solar manufacturers are taking 
advantage of forced labor, and the Department of Labor put out its own 
2022 report concluding that various solar products manufactured in China 
are produced with child or forced labor inputs.

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The New York Times also published its own report on the Chinese green 
energy industry’s connections to slave labor in January 2021, suggesting 
that several major Chinese solar companies appear to be connected to the 
practice. One October 2023 assessment from The Heritage Foundation found 
that approximately 80% of all solar components made in China are produced 
using slave labor, and American customs officials have blocked solar 
shipments coming in from China for potential violations of the Uyghur 
Forced Labor Prevention Act, according to Reuters.

“There is progress being made around the world, but the gap between China 
and everybody else is much larger and more intimidating than is widely 
acknowledged, and the global story looks much less optimistic once you set 
China aside—which is, in some ways, precisely what America is trying to do 
by engaging in a green-tech trade war,” Wallace-Wells states in his 
column.

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Using regulation and hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, the Biden-
Harris administration has made a huge effort to stand up a domestic green 
energy industry and reduce America’s reliance on fossil fuels, but cheaper 
Chinese products and dominance of green energy supply chains has 
complicated those goals.

In addition to problems with slave labor’s role in green supply chains, 
American companies have also voiced concern that China’s price advantages 
and unfair trade practices threaten to wipe them out in the absence of 
protections just as they are starting to find their footing.

Chinese solar products are low-cost because of a combination of cheap coal 
to power manufacturing, extensive government subsidies, and forced labor, 
according to Forbes and The Heritage Foundation’s October 2023 analysis.

In his column, Wallace-Wells concedes that China is the world’s top 
emitter of carbon dioxide, but he points to China’s “avoided emissions” as 
evidence that the country is displacing coal power for low-emissions 
renewables. Notably, China permitted two coal plants per week on average 
in 2022, according to research conducted by the Centre for Research on 
Energy and Clean Air.

“Much of the argument for those tariffs has concerned the challenge of 
Chinese subsidy and ‘overcapacity’—and what the United States and its 
allies might do, if anything, to enable us to properly compete with a 
green economy producing today twice as many solar panels as the world has 
demand for, as well as an [electric vehicle] company taking over the world 
while mostly posting losses,” Wallace-Wells continues. “But another aspect 
of the imbalance is perhaps more worrying, at least for those of us 
concerned about the pace of decarbonization: that China might back off, 
reducing its support for green industry in much the way that it 
purposefully deflated its own real estate bubble, somewhat idling the 
engine of the global green transition and leaving the rest of us in the 
lurch.”

The New York Times did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

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