Chinese Solar's Sunny Future in Africa

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China’s solar imports aren’t welcome everywhere, but that’s not the case in Africa. Solar exports to the continent as a whole increased by almost 50 percent last year.Subscribe nowIn our latest episode, editor Andrew Peaple and reporter Noah Berman discuss his upcoming reporting on Chinese solar’s booming sales to the continent. Solar proponents spy opportunity to improve electrical grids across African nations with Chinese imports, but are widening trade deficits and China’s anti-involutionary policies going to slow the rush?ShareLast episode, we dove deep into eyewitness testimony from the Hainan spy plane crisis 25 years ago with audio of an erratic Chinese pilot from a few months before the fatal crash, the U.S. pilot who steered the disintegrating plane to land on Hainan, and the U.S. ambassador to Beijing during the crisis. Returning EP-3 crew members pose with their charter flight attendants during the return trip from Hainan, April 12, 2001. Credit: John A Giles via USMCIn the second part of this episode, we look at how the U.S. intelligence community viewed the crisis through the eyes of Dennis Wilder, who was then CIA China Division Chief. Our oral history of the incident continues this week on our website, thewirechina.com, where Part II will be released this Sunday evening.Interested in full access to The Wire China content? Learn more about subscribing: https://www.thewirechina.com/subscriptions/Transcript:Andrew: Hello and welcome back to The Wire China podcast with me, Andrew Peaple, The Wire’s news editor, hosting this week from the UK, where spring is in th…