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There are other reasons—not to do with slave labour—that are connected to this amendment. The solar panels of Xinjiang have a higher carbon footprint that those manufactured elsewhere in the world. As we heard in an earlier debate, although China has been increasing the number of products connected with the green energy priorities of the future, it is also building the equivalent of two new coal-burning power stations every week; it is doing so to build its industrial and military might, and certainly not to do its bit towards tackling climate change.