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The CCP’s use of Uyghur and Kazakh slaves allows China to manufacture the world’s cheapest solar panels and the first world to feel smug about using them to purportedly ‘save the Planet’. Aalthough, evidently, these noble Western saviours aren’t so concerned with those places where daily life is spent under lock and key and every move is scrutinised by jackbooted thugs.

The CCP – hardly renowned for its compassion – has rounded up something in the order of 2.6 million of its minorities and enslaved them as “surplus labour”, hundreds of thousands of them have been directed into dozens of China’s large-scale solar manufacturing plants; coerced with a mix of mass incarceration (aka “re-education camps”), threats to the victim’s families and actual violence – in so-called “labour transfer” programs.

But give these characters their due, the CCP has managed to dominate not only the production solar panels, but is…