US Decoupling under Xinjiang Excuse Undermines Cooperation: Times

The U.S. is pursuing "decoupling" with China using human rights issues as a pretext, and such measures as banning U.S. companies from supply chains involving Xinjiang will severely undermine bilateral cooperation on climate change and finance, the Global Times said citing Lv Xiang, a researcher at the state-run think tank Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The Biden administration will open the stage for Chinese countermoves including the first use of China's entity list to punish unreliable supply chain partner companies and cause more boycotts of their goods by Chinese consumers, the newspaper said. Xinjiang accounts for around half of the world's polysilicon capacity, raw material for solar panels, so the measures will hurt U.S. efforts developing renewable energy, the newspaper said.