Remember that time, in the 117th Congress, when virtue-signaling leftists passed a law called the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. Me neither, but it requires proof that certain Chinese products are not made using forced labor.
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act requires proof that any products coming from Xinjiang, one of the main sources of products crucial in making batteries, were free of forced labor, the NYT reported.
The law took effect on Tuesday, and so what? Xinjiang is a primary source of parts used to make electric car batteries and other green energy components. According to experts, you won’t likely find an electric car battery without some. In other words, the Left, having done a good thing – trying to protect the Uyghurs from oppressive Chinese Communists – accidentally did a better thing.
Without breaking the law, they can’t screw us with their failed green agenda or ram millions of overpriced underperforming electric vehicles down our throats. And you can add solar panel components to that list as well.
The downside?
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act is just words on paper – their words on their paper, but for as long as they pull the levers, there is no law, no force, no limitation that shall deter. They will ignore or break the law and not prosecute themselves to get what they want; or lie for their Chinese friends to keep us sliding down their slippery slope.
And anyone who complains too loudly, well – they might find themselves in a labor camp.
Don’t laugh. That’s on the menu in every authoritarian regime, and after the COVID crackdown, if you don’t see that coming, you need to lay off the Kool-Aid®.
HT | Daily Caller
