, Columnist
Squid Game Pits Solar Giants Against Each Other
The legal wrangling points to the end of China’s heroic phase of innovative growth.
A vicious war over patents is bogging down China’s solar industry.
Source: Netflix Inc.
In Breakneck, a smart new book about why the US seems unable to keep up with China’s headlong growth, author Dan Wang posits a novel explanation: China is run by engineers, trained to find ingenious ways of building new things. America, however, is run by lawyers, who are equally innovative in finding ways to stop them.
Someone ought to tell that to China’s solar panel industry.