An abundance of Chinese solar panels could soon be dumped on the global market at record low prices, following a surge in post-Covid production. But with domestic economies faltering, developed nations will have to find a compromise between facilitating a low-cost transition to clean energy, while boosting local supply chains as much as possible. Across China’s export-heavy sectors, manufacture has gone into overdrive, pretty much at the demand of the country’s government to boost the supply side of its economy. After the production slowdown from Covid-enforced lockdowns, the country has significant ground to make up if it wants to match its 2019 export sales, which exceeded that of any other country at $2.5 trillion (20% of its GDP); the US,…