Furthermore, it also reduces the drain on the (often very fragile, for thirld world countries) foreign reserves, especially relevant when the oil prices fluctuate wildly.
If your solar panels are old and you don't have money to replace them, you get slightly less electricity. If you are out of gasoline/diesel and you have no money to buy it, you have a big, big, problem.
Unless there is some hidden cybersecurity risk of them shutting off panels remotely?
The weakest link won't be the panels themselves, but the grid infrastructure, or telephony infrastructure. Unless somehow the chinese were able to embed a radiowave activated kill-switch or something. Highly doubt it!
And corruption is one of those annoying problems that dont go away easy
Trump did manage to make it more expensive for most of the world, but reversing that chaos is much, much harder.