Act sabotaging Xinjiang's competitive industries

With the "Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act", the United States, under the guise of upholding human rights, is trying to suppress China's advantageous industries in its Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region by political means. Its economic coercion seriously undermines international trade practices and rules.

The Act is not intended to protect human rights but to implement trade protectionism.

China is the world's second-largest cotton producer, the largest cotton importer and textile producer, and has the largest photovoltaic manufacturing and installed applications.

Xinjiang is an important cotton production area in China and the most important production base for polysilicon, the basic material for the photovoltaic industry. It is a key link that cannot be ignored in the global textile industry and photovoltaic industry chain and supply chain.

The US is using the Act to weed out competitors from Xinjiang and China at large from the cotton, textile and photovoltaic manufacturing industries by requiring domestic and foreign companies to exclude Xinjiang products from their supply chains.

The US Act is further evidence of the US' willingness to sabotage the international trade order and trade rules. Requiring domestic companies and those of other countries to exclude Xinjiang products from their supply chains severely distorts the normal international trade order and competition relations, and grossly tramples on the principles of fair market competition and World Trade Organization rules.

Such practices that violate market rules and business ethics and undermine the international business environment are unpopular and have encountered strong opposition, including from many US companies.

The US is taking advantage of its domestic law to use its political black hand to squeeze Chinese enterprises' opportunities to participate in global trade competition on a fair basis, which will only come back to bite the US itself.

The US should stop its protectionist and hegemonic actions as soon as possible, withdraw all sanctions and repression measures related to Xinjiang, and stop undermining international trade rules and dragging down world economic growth.