US President Donald Trump recently made a statement about Sino-American rivalry that was almost immediately met with ridicule. "We make better solar panels than China," he told a group of governors at the White House last Monday.
He also claimed the 30 per cent import tax slapped on foreign-made panels, introduced in January, was already reviving local production.
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