China uses the climate agenda both as a way to strengthen its economy by continuing and growing its use of fossil fuels and as a weapon for weakening other countries by reducing theirs. It now monopolizes the global wind and solar industries, although its own renewable energy infrastructure, like renewable energy infrastructures everywhere, is unreliable (requiring thermal generation backup mostly from fossil fuels), costly, and subject to high rates of curtailment. But its domestic renewables sites serve as effective demonstration projects for tours by Western environmentalists, who then lobby their governments to buy these expensive and unreliable forms of energy. When they do, they give China two wins for the West’s two losses. On the same model of profiting from the sale to the West of crippling technologies, China hopes to dominate the electric vehicle market—and its domination of mining and refining cobalt and other minerals needed for batteries makes that result inevitable if the rest of the world takes the bait. By pursuing unilateral climate policies—committing to reduce their own carbon dioxide emissions while China goes merrily along increasing its own—Western countries are hobbling their economies through rising energy costs, power blackouts, and other supply shortages as surely as wartime saboteurs might, only the damage is self-inflicted and systemwide. No weapon is more potent at crippling Western economies than the net-zero agenda. China’s army here includes Western environmental NGOs and media, who together give naïve politicians their marching orders. For the Communist regime to survive, and that is surely the CCP’s top priority, fossil fuels for economic growth must be secure, explaining why all the state’s resources are rallied to the task. The pursuit of CO2 reductions within China would serve neither the goal of preserving Communist rule nor becoming the world’s foremost superpower by 2049. To China’s leadership, it is a no-brainer. As far as the CCP is concerned, carbon dioxide reductions only make sense for those it wishes to harm and supplant. Patricia Adams unveils all this and more in her outstanding briefing paper China’s Energy Dream, just published by our friends at the Global Warming Policy Foundation. With GWPF’s permission, we’re delighted to make China’s Energy Dream available to you in a high-quality printed edition that you can read at your leisure and conveniently share with friends. Through the month of January, as our way of saying “Thank you!” for a 100% tax-deductible donation of literally ANY size, we’ll gladly send you a FREE copy of China’s Energy Dream while our supply lasts. To request your copy, simply write "Promo 22-01" when you make your donation through our secure online giving page, by mailing your check to Cornwall Alliance, 875 W. Poplar Ave, Suite 23-284, Collierville, Tennessee 38017, or by calling us at 423-500-3009 by midnight on January 31st. In any case, mention “Promo 22-01" or China’s Energy Dream. When giving online you can write in the comments box on the second page of our donation form. Please note we do ask international donors to pay for shipping of the free gift. Offer valid only while supplies last. | 
