Thread: Factory Jobs Return, but Employers Find Skills Shortage

I heard that this U.S. intellectual property was sold to China rather than putting people in the U.S. to work.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/busin ... solar.html

China Racing Ahead of U.S. in the Drive to Go Solar

Ryan Pyle for The New York Times
Suntech, China’s biggest solar panel maker, has reduced the price of panels sold in America to build market share.


By KEITH BRADSHER
Published: August 24, 2009



Ryan Pyle for The New York Times
Chinese companies like Suntech, above, plan to build assembly plants in the United States.


WUXI, China — President Obama wants to make the United States “the world’s leading exporter of renewable energy,â€

So not only did we sell China the know-how, the Chinese admittedly are selling this product for less than the cost of manufacture - and German companies are having to lay off people because they also cannot compete. So how is China subsidizing the solar companies? And what can we do about it other than the tired mantra "Buy American?" I like that but many no longer get paid enough to stick to it.

Plus we have had many problems with Chinese products in recent years - like poison drywall.