Not the onion. Here’s another blog discussing the same proposed rule: https://news.chanda.science/archive/its-the-end-of-american-science-as-we-know-it/

China does use slave labor in cotton and aluminum production. BYD uses that aluminum, as well as other western brands.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/01/china-carmakers-implicated-uyghur-forced-labor

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/01/un-experts-alarmed-reports-forced-labour-uyghur-tibetan-and-other-minorities

The post is free to access and written by a disabled lawyer that works on disability issues. No need to subscribe. But if you’d rather not give traffic, the other blog I linked to in the comments covers the same territory.

Lovely part of the country.

Hope there’s good oversight with this program, but this is really nice to read.