US industry is actually very competitive with Chinese industry when it comes to the key ingredient in silicon PV, high purity silicon. Unfortunately, retaliatory tariffs from China that followed the last round of anti-Chinese solar tariffs in the US have prevented US silicon exporters from serving the huge Chinese solar silicon market. Hemlock had to write off over a billion dollars and mothball a nearly-finished US silicon plant, and REC and Wacker's plants in the US are running below capacity. So there is plenty of high quality, low cost refined silicon capacity in the US if wafer and cell plants start operating here. Specialized solar manufacturing equipment is more likely to come from European companies, e.g. Meyer Burger.

Who builds those robots? Who installs them. Who creates the factories? Who designs the robotic software. Who sells that software & robotics equipment. Who makes the raw material.

> If China can make cheaper solar panels, LET THEM.

That's a short term win long term loss attitude. China then becomes the R&D center for the next gen energy equipment. That's not in the best long term interest of the US.