China is coming in to help the US’s environmental plan work. A study from the Heritage Foundation says that China is looking at the U.S.’s plans for the environment to see how it can benefit.
“Most people who support the radical climate change agenda don’t think about how China’s involvement is bad for the environment.” The people who wrote the paper said, “The more the US pushes for green energies, the more it relies on China, our biggest enemy.”
“Chinese Handcuffs: How China Exploits America’s Climate Agenda” was the title of the study written by Erin Walsh and Andrew Harding. Walsh is a senior research fellow at Heritage’s Asian Studies Center and Harding is a research assistant there.
“America is an energy superpower and one of the world’s three largest energy producers,” the report said. China, on the other hand, is net energy weak because it imports more energy than it exports.
They went on to say that China has been trying to change these roles by taking control of the “so-called green movement.” They also said that some people might not be too worried about Beijing, but they made it clear that this could be a problem for many countries.
In the study, they said, “For the political Left, the need to lessen any effects of climate change requires both cheap and subsidized Chinese-made infrastructure in the form of solar panels, wind turbines, grid storage, and batteries for electric vehicles.”
These days, China controls eighty percent of the supply chain and makes more than ninety-five percent of the solar panels that the EU buys. China also has forty to fifty percent of the world’s rare elements, which are often used in green energy. One more thing China is doing to get rid of competition is selling goods for less money.
Many countries are trying to use green energy, but China wants to be the leader in this field, so its actions could affect many others.