Throughout his term, President Joe Biden's administration has actively worked to curtail domestic energy production, forcing American reliance on foreign energy.
Under the traditional model of fossil fuel-based energy production, the United States is one of the largest energy producers in the world.
Biden, like Barack Obama before him, has failed to recognize the dangers of forced reliance on China's "Green" energy materials, even amid growing tensions between the U.S. and the PRC. China's dominance in green energy materials is no accident.
In the recently published paper "Chinese Handcuffs: How China Exploits America's Climate Agenda," Heritage Foundation scholars Erin Walsh and Andrew J. Harding explain the recent history of Chinese energy policy, illuminating the decades-long project of establishing dominance in components needed to produce renewable energy.
As Walsh and Harding explain, "The high energy demands of China's industrial economy left it increasingly reliant on imported fossil-based energy, which left the country vulnerable to both supply and price fluctuations." To increase energy security, General Secretary Hu Jintao began building China's capacity for renewable energy.
Building off Hu's legacy, CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping continues to pursue Chinese energy independence and works to "Mold[] the global climate order to serve the interests of the CCP." With legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act - which didn't so much reduce inflation as slash America's domestic energy industry - Biden and the Democrats are playing into Xi's hands.
Xi has overseen Chinese growth in the green energy sector, and China has invested heavily in building the capacity to manufacture solar panels, lithium-ion batteries, and electric vehicles.
https://spectator.org/bidens-green-energy-policies-help-china-not-america/
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