NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/bu...html?th&emc=th

Aside from low wages, it's hard to beat China's exports when the govt heavily subsidizes those companies whose goods are primarily for export.

OTOH, would it be to the benefit of the importers to move forward as rapidly as possible, and as cheaply as possible, toward more solar energy?

There could be two sides to this coin.

Too long an article to reproduce in its entirety here.