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Between 2008 and 2013, China's fledgling solar-electric panel industry dropped world prices by 80 percent, a stunning achievement in a fiercely competitive high-tech market. China had leapfrogged from nursing a tiny, rural-oriented solar program in the 1990s to become the globe's leader in what may soon be the world's largest renewable energy source.
[...] China's new dominance of nearly all aspects of solar use and manufacturing—markets that are predicted to expand by 13 percent a year, according to the report—came through a "unique, complex and interdependent set of circumstances" that is not likely to be repeated.
[...] According to some veterans in the U.S. solar industry, China bought solar companies and invited others to move to China, where they found cheap, skilled labor. Instead of paying taxes, they received tax credits.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-china-is-dominating-the-solar-industry/
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @11:43PM
You've got your labels all mixed up which just shows your biased thinking. Sure some liberals have an "ignorance is bliss" kind of attitude, decrying slave labor then standing in line for hours for the newest iClone. However, neo-liberals are like neo-conservatives. They are no longer liberal or progressive in any way, and are actually characterized as more conservative than the Republican party of a few decades ago! Any concern for the environment is like Republican concerns for American Jobs: fake.