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Solar Panel Trade War Heats Up
Hugh Pickens writes "Reuters reports that Chinese solar companies could soon find themselves bereft of some of their biggest foreign markets as Western manufacturers intensify a solar trade war and seek stiff anti-dumping duties on low-cost Chinese products. German group SolarWorld says it is working on steps to curb alleged price dumping by Chinese rivals in Europe as a group of seven U.S. solar companies urges the U.S. government to slap anti-dumping duties on Chinese-made solar energy products. Western solar companies have been at odds with their Chinese counterparts for years, alleging they receive lavish credit lines to offer modules at cheaper prices. 'American solar operations should be rapidly expanding to keep pace with the skyrocketing demand for these products,' says Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon whose office authored a whitepaper called 'China's Grab for Green Jobs.' (PDF) 'But that is not what has been happening. There seems to be one primary explanation for this; that is, that China is cheating.'"
I'm just clarifying that the only reason we allow it is the US is a profoundly racist country.
And I'm just clarifying that you are fucking full of shit. Y'know?
The other option is explode prices upward, because the capital cost of setting up a competitor is very high and takes a long time, and our government will not help our manufacturers in fact it will stand in the way whenever possible, and finally if we built a plant to sell cheap panels the Chinese govt would merely repeat the same trick, hand cash to their manufacturers to undercut the prices of our new plant, and put our new plant out of business, at which time they can charge whatever they want again.
Which is in essence what the complaint is about. The Chinese government is not playing by the same rules the rest of the world is playing by. The entire problem of the "non-protectionist" bullcrap arguments is that they assume that all countries are playing by the same rules - e.g. that all nations involved in trade have relatively equivalent standards for worker protection, environmental protection, and product safety. Meanwhile, the Chinese communist government creates nothing of real value, produces vast quantities of unsafe, dangerous knockoff crap from stolen designs, and treats 90% of their population as slave classes. One great example: a "landmark study" on enforced "vegan" nutrient-poor diets was recently done in China by a US-based "useful idiot" academic. Why do it in China? The Chinese government has laws preventing their slave classes from moving between villages and absolutely no Human Subjects regulations.
The USA problem is we think we are human beings and Chinese are not human beings they are just the yellow hordes or whatever subhuman description you'd like.
No, actually, the problem is that most people don't even know what goes into MAKING most of the products they use today. For instance, food. It has nothing to do with racism, it has nothing to do with hate, it's just a simple fact that most people don't consider anything beyond the point where they saw product X on the store shelves.
You want to talk economics? Fine, let's talk economics. But kindly get your head out of your ass and stop assuming that everything in the world is a product of "racism."
Incidentally: nobody in the USA refers to "the USA problem." It'd be "America's problem." My guess is, you're probably from some communist dipshit country where you get force-fed a diet of "USA bad, evil whiteys racist, they want to take over the world and depose your Glorious Leader" bullshit.