China is now the world's leading producer of solar panels and other key technologies to implement Green Power (above, a wind turbine made in China being unloaded at the port in Los Angeles). It got that way through heavy government subsidies such as free land grants and low interest loans. Those measures are not WTO-compliant, and today a U.S. union filed a complaint with the Obama administration, forcing it to open an investigation into Chinese practices into growing its green manufacturing industry.
On Clean Energy, China Skirts Rules - NYTimes.com
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