Biden’s climate envoy Kerry is expected to travel to Shanghai, China, this week to try to work with Beijing on climate change. U.S. Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio warned in a post Monday (April 12) that Biden’s green energy plan is a big gift to Beijing.
Kyodo News reports: U.S. presidential climate envoy John Kerry’s visit to India and Shanghai, China, this week will be the first visit by a senior U.S. official to China since the Biden administration took office. Kerry is expected to hold talks with China’s special envoy for climate change affairs Xie Zhenhua around greenhouse gas reduction measures, and Kerry, who is on a trip to India, said on whether he could get China’s cooperation: “I’m looking forward to it, but I’m not completely sure yet.”
The U.S. will host an online-format climate-change-related summit from 22 to 23, to which Chinese President Xi Jinping has also been invited. The meeting is expected to include consultations around the reduction targets by 2030 required by the Paris Agreement, an international framework for global warming countermeasures.
Writing on Fox News, Republican U.S. Senator Rubio criticized: “At the heart of Biden’s climate plan is a call to shift large swaths of our energy infrastructure to what he calls ‘clean energy. That means buying millions of solar panels, electric car charging stations and other expensive green infrastructure from an industry that China dominates production.” In other words, the new solar panels the Biden administration wants Americans to install on the roofs of their homes will come from China; the Chinese Communist Party’s industrial base will profit from this; the Biden administration is ensuring the dominance of the Chinese Communist Party’s manufacturing industry? The Chinese Communist Party dominates the renewable energy industry, and China has been investing in these industries for years through massive government subsidies. If the U.S. is going to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on renewable energy, it should not spend it on rewarding the CCP with profits from a regime that practices genocide.
Rubio argues that U.S. energy policy should focus on how to build domestic production and create good jobs in the United States. Any serious plan should ensure two things: First, it should make clear that the money will not go to China, with a “no Chinese” clause that would provide a huge incentive for U.S. manufacturers and manufacturers from other countries to fill the gap; second, the plan should raise the domestic content requirements for products and impose a “Buy American” requirements to stimulate significant domestic investment in these areas.
Rubio criticized that after the U.S. achieves energy independence for the first time since the 1950s in 2019, Biden’s plan would make the U.S. dependent on foreign competitors again. The Biden plan would also encourage and reward China’s terrible industry behavior. For example, in the past few years, China has dominated components of solar panels such as polysilicon to the point where half of the world’s production now takes place in Xinjiang. ” Clean energy is not clean when its production is tainted with the blood of forced labor.”
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