Even the best-laid 5-year plans of mice and Chinese technocrats can fail. From Stu Cvrk at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
China’s green industry faces severe headwinds.
China has been all-in on the “green revolution” for years. Green technology has been a significant revenue source for the communist regime, aided and abetted by Western environmentalists intent on mandating “carbon neutrality” and governments that have incentivized the transition from hydrocarbon-based energy sources to “renewables.”
For China, renewables represent the intersection of green technology development, 15-minute cities, and comprehensive social controls, all of which are tied together by local police bureaus and lubricated by money.
Let us examine the issue.
Chinese Green Investments
The Western push (mania) to transition away from hydrocarbons was perceived by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a golden opportunity to achieve multiple political-economic ends: to weaken the energy infrastructures of Western countries—especially its perceived main enemy, the United States—to create new overseas markets for Chinese industry, to increase Western dependency on Chinese-produced green technology components and the rare earth elements needed to manufacture them, and to achieve a massive trade surplus that would fuel the Chinese military and other investments.
Perhaps most importantly, green technology investments would increase Chinese technological prestige on the world stage in a sector of keen political focus in the West, which dovetails nicely with CCP messaging about the “inevitability” of Chinese communist world leadership.
The Green Nude Eel is just a scam?!
I thought the land of Sun Tzu was smarter than that?
The earth will be here when we are bleached bones in the radioactive sand?