It concludes with four policy proposals to exercise oversight of the World Bank and its safeguards against forced labor in the solar supply chains. Like the Gulag archipelago of forced labor camps upon which dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn famously shone light, the CCP’s web of forced labor camps represents a Uyghur archipelago of repression. [6] The World Bank has established eight contractually binding performance standards to regulate environmental and social conditions within bank-funded projects. It is thus extremely unlikely that products made through forced labor within the solar supply chain will be consistently excluded from World Bank projects. Commensurate with the United States’ preeminent role in the World Bank, the president of the bank is traditionally an American or dual citizen who is appointed by the United States.

Source: The Guardian November 20, 2023 17:54 UTC