This May 29, 2022 file photo shows workers cleaning photovoltaic panels along the Tarim Desert Road in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. XINHUA PHOTO
THE United States' proposed Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), which has been widely described as an "evil bill," may be aimed at cracking down on products and industries in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region as part of a broader campaign to contain the East Asian country, but its implications are global and severe, because Xinjiang is deeply embedded in the global supply chain in many areas, according to a Global Times examination of the measure's impact on global supply chains.