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'Saying no has consequences' for Uyghurs being coerced into unpaid factory work after their release from detention centres

Security infrastructure slips away and mass surveillance is ramped up as Beijing comes under pressure from the West over ‘genocide’

Governors' Wind Energy Coalition Secrecy and Abuse Claims Haunt China’s Solar Factories in Xinjiang Source: By Dan Murtaugh in Singapore, Colum Murphy and James Mayger in Xinjiang, China, and Brian Eckhouse in Los Angeles, Bloomberg • Posted: Thursday, April 15, 2021 The world’s green power surge depends on polysilicon made in China’s remote Northwest. No one really knows what’s going on inside the facilities. In the wilderness of the Gobi Desert sit two factories that churn out vast quantities of polysilicon, the raw material in billions of solar panels all ov...

Secrecy and Abuse Claims Haunt China’s Solar Factories in Xinjian Sun Online Desk 15th April, 2021 11:56:20 In the wilderness of the Gobi Desert sit two factories that churn out vast quantities of polysilicon, the raw material in billions of solar panels all over the world. It’s a four-hour drive from Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region at the center of China’s crackdown on Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. The only structures that rise up among miles of rolling snow-covered fields are the chimneys of coal-fired power plants, belching white smoke. Almost no one outside China k...