1] China has cornered the world market in rare earth elements, some of which (like neodymium) are needed to make the super magnets used in wind turbines;

2] China has swamped the world with cheap photovoltaic cells and destroyed or damaged local production in the USA and elsewhere;

3] China is well on its way to dominating lithium ion battery manufacturing, as this article indicates.

China’s advantage is that it has no environmental or workplace health and safety regulations, no real labor unions, and no democratic institutions.

These all cost free world manufacturers lots of money and leaves them unable to compete.

The only solution I see is requiring that all goods imported into the USA be made under the same regulations (in whatever country they come from) that would apply to these items if they were made here.

Goods that do not meet these regulations would be taxed, a tariff, that would eliminate any trade surplus that otherwise would accrue to the countries manufacturing these sub-standard items.

Won’t ever happen, but it’s the only way out as I see it.