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US climate envoy John Kerry told Congress on Wednesday that the Biden administration is considering imposing sanctions on raw materials China uses for solar panels because of accusations of forced Uighur labour. The move could complicate Mr Kerry's efforts to convince Beijing to reduce carbon emissions before the UN climate conference in November. “Xinjiang province not only produces some solar panels that we believe are being, in some cases, produced with forced labour by Uighurs, but also there are a significant amounts of rare earth minerals that are used in the solar panels,” Mr Kerry told the House foreign affairs...
