Is it? I get that china is “the bad guy”, but does that automatically mean everything china does is intended to hurt the US? Or did they just want to help themselves? Just because the US wasn’t in a position to handle it happening, doesn’t retroactively make it an intentional attack.
The whole point of mass producing something is to make the process more efficient, which lowers the cost. They also hurt themselves if they accidentally end up oversupplying in the process, as then the price is lowered by a higher ratio than their savings on manufacturing costs.
taanegl@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s about utelising supply and demand.
Problem: China needs a lot of solar panels, quickly… and making many things is comparatively cheaper than producing a few things, per unit of course…
Solution: set up the infrastructure, produce a shit ton of solar panels and sell the excess on foreign markets to make up the difference.
You save a ton of money and give your own companies and infrastructure a chance to easily implement them. This is important, as China has had industrial smog problems in it’s manufacturing hubs.
This is something China can do, but the USA can’t do because it’s not government cheese or soda… for some reason.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 7 months ago
It’s because the companies own the government in the US.
VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Plus the more other counties use solar and not fossil fuels the more likely we are planet won’t boil. I know people like to pretend they’re ontological evil but actualy even the ccp don’t want everyone to die