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China’s Role in the Global Energy Transition

Inevitable

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The Role of Chinese Firms in the Development of Next Generation Clean Technology

A lot of how China's developed in the last 30 years has been local governments basically appropriate real estate through the equivalent of eminent domain. In solar PV, I think maybe the question we can come back to is how long is the dominance of polysilicon versus perovskites, for example. You still see the most interesting and I think valuable research and promising research, let's say, and developments taking place outside China. Most of those formal direct policy supports have gone away now it's more soft in the form of preferential loans from state owned banks.

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