Abstract
China’s solar energy industry developed rapidly in the 2000s, in part as a result of strategic transitional government-led investments into renewables as a way of diversifying the country’s energy landscape. Significant state support for the national solar industry led to heightened trade tensions between China and the US and the EU from 2011 onwards, in what was described as the China-US/EU ‘Solar Trade War’. In the context of a globalised economy, the pursuit of transitional policies (such as solar subsidies) based on a model of state-led neoliberalism have had consequences for China’s overall aim of strengthening its energy diplomacy and addressing energy security issues. The paper analyses the effect of transitions-focused subsidies on China’s trade and energy relations with the European Union (EU) and the United States (US).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 59-70 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | International Journal of Energy Security and Environmental Research |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 14 Dec 2014 |
