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The same clown prize winning economist who said the economy is recovering and thriving if you ignore every metric a human needs to survive?
When china promotes domestic consumption the west gets mad at them for “skirting sanctions” and thriving independently. When they export their products then it’s “a threat to us all.”
Yeah that’s the part I don’t get, China running an export-heavy economy for decades was fine but now all of a sudden it’s a problem? I don’t buy that the neoliberal economists are that concerned with domestic alternative energy corporations being competitive, if so they’d be pressing the U.S. government to subsidize the domestic industry in turn.
What I suspect their real qualm is China limiting foreign investors from investing in those subsidized industries, but they can’t directly say that, too mask off. So instead they say “China should just focus on domestic spending because reasons,” hoping China will take the bait and limit their industries’ earning potential, make the market more import reliant so Chinese consumers are buying more from foreign corporations western investors can hold shares in.
It's not about competition to domestic alternative energy. It's about competition to fossil fuels.
The fear of affordable Chinese alternative energy syatems is of course the fear of petroleum losing dominance, and thus the loss of power that the petrodollar gives the US, the loss of economic power the US has as the largest exporter of refined petroleum, and the power that petroleum dependence gives the US over the daily lives of billions of people.
US imperialism is tied deeply with the western-dominated petroleum industry and the ongoing gradual downfall of its dominance is directly tied to the ongoing downfall of the US.