Republicans Say Kerry Is Lobbying Against Slave Labor Bill | RealClearPolitics
At issue is the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, bipartisan legislation that easily passed the Senate by voice vote in July only to be held up in the House. If signed into law, it would ban the import of any Chinese goods manufactured using forced Uyghur labor. Such a move would further enrage Beijing at a moment when the government there is already bristling from international criticism of China s mass detentions, forced sterilization and general abuses of its Muslim Uyghur minority in the Xinjiang region.
In a letter obtained exclusively by RealClearPolitics, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey express concern that Kerry is downplaying the genocide precisely because he intends to import solar panels that are produced using forced labor in the PRC to the United States in order to meet your administration s climate goals.