Clothing manufacturing is labour-intensive, relatively low tech, and just hops countries when labour gets more expensive in one place. Solar panels manufacturin

Clothing manufacturing is labour-intensive, relatively low tech, and just hops countries when labour gets more expensive in one place. Solar panels manufacturing has none of those properties. The general reckoning is that the Chinese government is subsidising local manufacturers, once the competitors close down and stop the expertise required to set up manufacturing elsewhere will decay and be lost and they'll have everyone over a barrel, and competing on cost of labour is irrelevant since it's such a small component of the cost.