Thailand imports solar panels from China but also Sweden and elsewhere, he said. Ultimately, Nitithanprapas said Thailand wants to create domestic production using foreign direct investment so it doesn\u2019t have to rely on any particular country.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a common view in much of Southeast Asia, where the creation of local solar manufacturing and EV plants won\u2019t happen overnight.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the short term, most countries don\u2019t have a viable alternative to Chinese clean-tech supply chains,\u201d said Vicky Janita, an analyst at Rystad Energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Even if they were to buy more supplies from countries like India, which has grown its solar panel manufacturing capacity, those producers still rely heavily on China for wafers and other parts of the supply chain, she said.<\/p>\n
That doesn\u2019t mean they aren\u2019t also trying different strategies to reduce that dependence and build their economies. Many countries in Southeast Asia have welcomed Chinese investment in domestic production, through both carrots, such as tax breaks, or sticks, such as Indonesia\u2019s export ban on raw nickel. Similarly, Brazil is imposing tariffs on EVs, forcing Chinese companies to set up local factories.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe logic is to accept Chinese capital and technology, but capture jobs, tax revenue, and the knowledge of the processes,\u201d said Janita.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese countries see clean-tech manufacturing as an economic development opportunity, and growing the economy is a major key priority for them,\u201d she added. \u201cThe reality is that China showed up with capital, speed, and a willingness to build in markets that Western firms often considered too risky or too small.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thailand imports solar panels from China but also Sweden and elsewhere, he said. Ultimately, Nitithanprapas said Thailand wants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[3074,488,3719,12887,2027,4059,2669,19955,949,7545,551,16768,262,7056,9622,177,27098,686,18357,1682,822,12478,648,2242,27099,2031,912,154,4777,264,2033,703,3400,3528,11616,911,5632,537,2038,138,2073,1601,893,34,18124,802,9284,207,1419,213,27100,27101,650,1217,5896,27102,18358,5280,19549,443,106,1218,15863,27103,2044,2248,2084,4298,947,27104,7890,445,691,51,567,36,226],"class_list":["post-73804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-americas","tag-asia","tag-bangladesh","tag-bart-de-wever","tag-batteries","tag-brazil","tag-buildings","tag-cambodia","tag-canada","tag-carbon","tag-cars","tag-chemicals","tag-china","tag-communications","tag-companies","tag-conflict","tag-conservation","tag-crisis","tag-critical-raw-materials","tag-cuba","tag-cybersecurity","tag-decarbonization","tag-defense","tag-development","tag-electric-cars","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-emissions","tag-energy","tag-energy-infrastructure","tag-energy-security","tag-energy-supply","tag-environment","tag-exports","tag-finance","tag-finland","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-fuels","tag-germany","tag-imports","tag-india","tag-indonesia","tag-industry","tag-investment","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-joe-biden","tag-manufacturing","tag-markets","tag-natural-gas","tag-oil","tag-overcapacity","tag-own-resources","tag-pakistan","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-philippines","tag-produce","tag-raw-materials","tag-renewable-energy","tag-scotland","tag-security","tag-south-korea","tag-spain","tag-steel","tag-stephane-sejourne","tag-supply-chains","tag-sweden","tag-tariffs","tag-tax","tag-technology","tag-teresa-ribera","tag-thailand","tag-trade","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-war","tag-war-in-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}