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How China’s Solar Domination Challenges the World

How China’s Solar Domination Challenges the World
Workers install solar panels at the construction site of 40MW photovoltaic on-grid power project in Huai an, China, on June 11, 2018. VCG/VCG via Getty Images
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To appreciate how China’s technological authoritarianism threatens the world, consider solar energy. What’s seen as a clean, modern and relatively high-tech alternative to fossil fuels has become another example of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) strong-arm approach to bullying other countries and dominating an industry. Worse yet, many American investors are willfully blind to Beijing’s monopolistic tactics and use of slave labor, prizing their “green” portfolios over U.S. energy security and human rights.

Keith Krach is an Epoch Times contributor who was unanimously confirmed as Under Secretary of State and is currently the chairman of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy. He served as chairman and CEO of DocuSign and Ariba and chairman of the Purdue Board of Trustees. Krach was nominated for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.
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