The other misleading part of this story is that China is investing heavily in developing green alternative energy technology, mainly to export it to the rest of the world.   They see it as being a new growing and profitable market.   And they don't want companies in other nations becoming the early market leaders.

China's competition is government subsidized, and is thus quite unfair.   China basically burst and wrecked US based solar panel makers several years ago, with their far cheaper solar panels.   They have been struggling ever since.  This is something has been widely reported in the press, as you can see in these investigative reports by Wired Magazine and the NY Times:

https://www.wired.com/2012/01/ff_solyndra/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/business/energy-environment/renewable-energy-stumbles-toward-the-future.html

This article the RG published by the Philadelphia Inquirer seems highly politically slanted, and appears meant to make Trump look bad.