Shi founded Suntech in 2001 after returning to China from Australia where he had obtained his PhD from the Universityof New South Wales and worked in the Australian solar industry.
Wang Fan, Koreas expert and director of the Institute of International Studies at China Foreign Affairs University, disagrees however and tells China Daily that the US-South Korean military drills will only provoke Pyongyang further.
Dr. Faust, who will also visit South Korea, said China is the "largest supplier" of international students enrolled at the university's campus, in Cambridge, Mass.