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By Joe Cash and Christoph Steitz BEIJING/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Swiss solar panel maker Meyer Burger is facing the brunt of competition from China and is warning it may have to close its loss-making production plant in Germany unless the government steps in with financial support. “Chinese manufacturers are deliberately selling goods in Europe far below their own production costs,” chief executive Gunter Erfurt told Reuters. “They can do this because the solar industry in China has been strategically subsidised with hundreds of billions of dollars for years.” Growing alarm over Chinese industri…

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