Human rights advocates attending the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington in early February have called on the United States not to trade off human rights in China for its own green revolutions.
Between 2010 and 2020, China’s share of global polysilicon production increased from 26 percent to 82 percent, according to a 2021 report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Meanwhile, Xinjiang produces about 45 percent of the world’s supply of polysilicon, according to research by the UK’s Sheffield Hallam University.
“I think it’s a false choice to say that you can’t be environmental without having the products come from China,” Sam Brownback, former ambassador at large for International Religious Freedom, said during an interview with NTD’s “China in Focus” on Feb. 4. “We may have to get more imaginative on our supply chains. We may have to go to places that price a little higher than what China is.”…