NYT Columnist Gushes Over China’s ‘Green Transition’ Without Once Mentioning It’s Fueled By Slave Labor
Nick Pope
Contributor
September 16, 2024
12:27 PM ET
The New York Times ran a Monday column applauding China’s green energy transition without mentioning that slave labor has played a massive role in the country’s progress on that front.
The column — written by David Wallace-Wells under the headline “What Happens if China Stops Trying to Save the World?” — gives China great credit for scaling up green energy manufacturing and installation while asserting that the American transition to less carbon-intensive energy is lagging by comparison. However, Wallace-Wells fails to mention in his piece that China’s green industry is powered with slave labor from Uyghur Muslims and other persecuted minorities.
“Consider solar power, which is presently dominating the global green transition and giving the world its feel-good story. In 2023, the world including China installed 425 gigawatts of new solar power; the world without China installed only 162 gigawatts,” Wallace-Wells writes. “China accounted for 263 gigawatts; the United States accounted for just 33. As recently as 2019, China was installing about one-quarter of global solar capacity additions; last year, it managed 62 percent more than the rest of the world combined. Over those same five years, China grew its amount of new added capacity more than eight times over; the world without China didn’t even double its rate.” (RELATED: ‘Massive Payday For China’: Biden’s Mining Strategy Is Undermining His Agenda And Helping China, Experts Say)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/16/nyt-columnist-gushes-over-chinas-green-transition-without-once-mentioning-its-fueled-by-slave-labor/
