In dealing with China, Trump may have a trick up his sleeve
Washington can now harness its considerable geological assets to the disadvantage of its rival in the Far East.
Washington can now harness its considerable geological assets to the disadvantage of its rival in the Far East.
Energy Foundation China, which operates primarily from Beijing, promotes energy policies designed to weaken US, watchdogs warn.
Standing up to energy hypocrisy.
The potential impact is damaging enough to be worth thinking about, perhaps even doing something about.
China controls a stranglehold of 80% of the global supply monopoly on rare earth minerals and metals, with the Congo in Africa a 90% source of vital cobalt.
China has monopoly control over processed graphite, an essential component of almost all lithium-ion batteries.
U.S. customs officials have seized thousands of German Volkswagens over a single part made in China’s Xinjiang region.
The electric vehicles that European, American, and other Western governments have been subsidizing are “the wrong car for the wrong market at the wrong time.”
Who is building coal? Of the 107 countries they tracked, one country built 47 gigawatts. The other 106 countries combined built 22 gigawatts.
A climate-focused nonprofit with significant operations in Beijing has wired millions of dollars to fund climate initiatives and environmental groups in the U.S.
Hypocrisy and ruinous policy abound at the UN climate conference in Dubai.
China's coal boom fits the axiom: "Socialists always lie."
Rhetoric aside, China and India are all in on coal.
China is the world's largest CO2 emitter after all.
Yet China’s massive victory, punctuated by its commitment to coal for its own economy and to controlling the market for almost all the components for renewable energy deployment, may well be pyrrhic, as its economy teeters on collapse.