China’s Solar Industry Redesigned Itself Around U.S. Forced Labor Law

Last month, firsthand testimony from a former Han Chinese police officer who supervised Uyghur labor transfers in Xinjiang described how the system works. Workers are taken to cotton fields under armed escort. Identity cards are confiscated to prevent escape. Those who refuse state-mandated assignments are sent to short-term detention facilities where, in the officer’s words, they are “intentionally subjected to hardship and suffering” until they comply.
The same coercion architecture underpins the labor that sustains Chinese crystalline silicon solar manufacturers, which continue to seek…
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