Beijing wants Washington to soften its China policies before working with the United States on climate change, as the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) continues in Glasgow. “You can’t ask China to cut coal production on the one hand, while at the same time imposing sanctions on Chinese photovoltaic enterprises,” said Wang Wenbin, spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry, during a daily briefing on Nov. 2. In June, the Biden administration made several moves to confront Beijing’s forced labor allegations in China’s far-western Xinjiang region, where over 1 million Uyghurs are being detained in internment camps. The U.S. government has characterized the communist regime’s treatment of Uyghurs as genocide. The Department of Labor added polysilicon produced in China to its “List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor.” Then, the Commerce Department added five Chinese companies—among them silicon manufacturer Hoshine Silicon Industry—to its trade blacklist. Finally, the Department of …