Epoch Times: Communist China Is 'Using Climate to Subvert the United States:' Analyst

by Dorothy Li and Jan Jekielek
The Epoch Times

China has gotten the United States ‘hooked on green technology,’ which Beijing dominates.

The Chinese communist regime has laid out the strategy to take over the United States as the world’s dominant power by 2049. Meanwhile, the United States is reducing its national security by voluntarily making itself more dependent on the “green energy” that China dominates, analysts say.

“China is using climate to subvert the United States,” Steve Milloy, a senior legal fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, said in a recent interview on Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders.”

“China has gotten the United States and Western Europe, and really all the developed countries, hooked on green technology,” Mr. Milloy said. At the heart of this alternative energy are technologies including wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicles, which are reliant on certain critical raw materials, such as graphite and rare earth elements. For many of these materials, China—the United States’ top adversary—is the world’s major supplier and processor.

“I think their strategy is to get the Western world dependent on China for technology,” Mr. Milloy said. “It’s a fighting without fighting.”

Mr. Milloy cited an example of rare earths, a group of 17 elements that China has a near global monopoly on.

“And all these rare earths go into wind technology and solar technology, EVs, as well as our cell phones and computers,” Mr. Milloy said. “The whole world really depends on China for this.”