Following the pattern first set by Japan, China has accepted the West as a forge of valuable technologies to be borrowed, adapted, made cheaper, and exported both to the originating countries and the rest of the world. None of these other nations have the abundance of energy resources that China does—major river systems (for hydropower), vast deserts (for solar and wind), a wealth of critical minerals, as well as oil, gas, uranium, and the world’s second largest coal reserves after the US. It is this energy nationalism and its results, viewed from the climate perspective, that has brought China to the point of representing both the “best” and the “worst” of what has been achieved.
Author: Scott Montgomery, Contributor, Scott Montgomery, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmontgomery/
Published at: 2025-12-07 23:04:56
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