Golden sun, green economy: market security and the US/EU-China ‘solar trade war’

IF 1.8 Q2 GEOGRAPHY

Asian Geographer Pub Date : 2015-06-23 DOI:10.1080/10225706.2015.1057191

Federico Caprotti

引用次数: 10

Abstract

China's solar manufacturing and R&D industry has developed rapidly since 2000: by 2010, 40% of the world's solar panels were manufactured in China. This has occurred as a result of strategic government economic planning, which has included concerns about energy security, energy diversity, and about the stimulation of a renewables-based green economy. The growth of China's solar industry has been marked since 2011 by what has come to be termed a “Solar Trade War” between the EU, the USA and China. The paper analyzes the heterogeneous framing of China's solar energy industry by corporate, nongovernmental and government actors in the USA and European Union. In so doing, the paper aims to critically investigate the production of specific market knowledge(s) that are not only instrumental and rational, but based on often-contradictory discursive constructions of an apparently merely technological and economic phenomenon such as the production of solar modules.

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金色太阳、绿色经济:市场安全与中美“太阳能贸易战”

自2000年以来，中国的太阳能制造和研发行业发展迅速:到2010年，全球40%的太阳能电池板是在中国制造的。这是政府战略性经济规划的结果，其中包括对能源安全、能源多样性的关注，以及对以可再生能源为基础的绿色经济的刺激。自2011年以来，中国太阳能产业的增长被称为欧盟、美国和中国之间的“太阳能贸易战”。本文分析了美国和欧盟企业、非政府组织和政府对中国太阳能产业的异质框架。在这样做的过程中，本文旨在批判性地研究特定市场知识的生产，这些知识不仅是工具性和理性的，而且是基于对一种表面上仅仅是技术和经济现象(如太阳能组件的生产)的经常相互矛盾的话语结构。

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Asian Geographer GEOGRAPHY-

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