It is clear to me that China’s manufacturing impact is not only huge, but also very frightening.

Red China has used the PV industry as it has other manufacturing sectors to become an economic super-power by abusing its workers:

SEE:
On the job with solar PV.
Taylor DA.
Environ Health Perspect. 2010 Jan;118(1):A19
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831982/

AND:
“American Imports, Chinese Deaths”
By Loretta Tofani
Salt Lake Tribune, 2007
http://extras.sltrib.com/china/

and by lying to and cheating those countries who have been greedy and stupid enough to become their so-called “free trade” partners:

Game Over for China’s Photovoltaic Manufacturers
By Gao Zitan & Frank Fang
Epoch Times Staff
Created: December 30, 2012
Last Updated: January 8, 2013
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/game-over-for-chinas-photovoltaic-manufacturers-329833-all.html

How will our planet’s environmental sustainability be enhanced by going solar when doing so has contributed to the huge profits that:

1] have been earned by a totalitarian dictatorship by selling goods, like PV equipment manufactured by its de facto slaves, and that;

2] are now being used by that same despicable regime to arm itself and threaten its neighbors?

You greenies have got to get your heads out of the sand! Without globalized liberty and justice for everyone, everywhere, always, the pitiful attempts by wealthy countries to “go green” will amount to nothing more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.