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The Biden administration has also laid out pieces of what it calls a “twenty-first-century industrial strategy . . . to strengthen our supply chains [and] rebuild our industrial base across sectors, technologies, and regions .” This strategy is as much a geopolitical approach as it is an economic one, focusing primarily on countering Chinese industrial dominance in strategically important sectors.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/us-solar-industry-strategy

Ask the President

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Again, why a factory in the US? Seriously, don’t see the logic

Why The U.S. Should Speed Solar Production That Doesn’t Depend On China

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelposner/20...ca118d106d

There’s something odd about where China is building solar power

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There is another factor to consider, which is that the PRC may be pushing for distributed solar with security objectives in mind. In the event of conventional military hostilities over Taiwan, the United States and China might target one another’s grids with cyberattacks (or even kinetic attacks, as Russia is doing in Ukraine). While distributed solar can introduce new vulnerabilities for the electricity grid, on balance it strengthens resiliency. Accordingly, wide-scale rooftop solar deployment could improve the resilience of China’s grids in a confrontation or conflict. During a military standoff of Taiwan, in either a quarantine, blockade, or invasion scenario, distributed solar could provide key areas of mainland China with more reliable emergency energy than a power station taken offline by, for instance, a cyberattack. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has reportedly instructed his military to be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027, although that date reflects an aspiration, not necessarily a decision. As such, distributed solar could factor in military planning by the PRC, if it does not alread

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atl...lar-power/