This is honestly one of the stupidest things about this sort of policy: solar panels last 20 years and China can't take them away once you have them.
If you're doing something much more valuable with the power, then buying a lot of PV from China makes sense. If you think the panels are being unfairly subsidized then buying a lot of PV from China is effectively having the Chinese government pay you to have cheap power.
There's an enormous difference between being dependent on short term consumable resources,.and acquiring multidecadel productive assets.
The US at all points seems to not understand it's relationship with China at all.
Most people are economically illiterate and don't understand what subsidies actually imply.
They literally only "hurt" you if you have the local industry to harm to begin with. Otherwise, if someone else is paying the subsidy, it gives you a good for cheaper than you could have had otherwise.
The current admin just turns this up to 11 with their ideologically driven nonsense.
If you're doing something much more valuable with the power, then buying a lot of PV from China makes sense. If you think the panels are being unfairly subsidized then buying a lot of PV from China is effectively having the Chinese government pay you to have cheap power.
There's an enormous difference between being dependent on short term consumable resources,.and acquiring multidecadel productive assets.
The US at all points seems to not understand it's relationship with China at all.