I sat watching this, incredulous at the self-serving econo-babble the West dishes up to protect its existing…

I sat watching this, incredulous at the self-serving econo-babble the West dishes up to protect its existing status. We all know the world - all of it - desperately needs solar panels, EVs and EV batteries. /1 https://t.co/xTEsxdujNX https://t.co/4t8H22DXgX

What have Western countries been doing for the past two decades to provide these vital technologies for transition to Net Zero? Absolutely fucking nothing, with only tiny exceptions. China on the other hand has been going gangbusters at it. /2

Driving prices down, the sole reason we’ve now lived through a massive decline in energy production prices, globally. They’ve done the world an enormous service, and still are, now offering astonishingly cheap, quality EVs and solar hardware. At scale. /3

And what’s our response? This is ‘anti-competitive behaviour’. Gave me a fucking break, where’s the competition here? We’re not doing ANYTHING. You won’t see a clearer case of how politicians are there purely to bolster the interests of big donors from fossil fuels and ICEs. /4

Now the European and American people will have massive tariffs placed on these Chinese goods, driving up costs at a time we need exponential increases in uptake. Thankfully for now Australia is benefiting from Chinese foresight and investment. /5

But it would only take an injection of Yellow Peril politics, like AUKUS, to fuck all this up for us as well. China is an industrial revolution, and has been for decades. A wonder of our age. Obscured from our view by old imperial racist claptrap. /6

Our lazy and entitled, fossil fuel-driven cultures do nothing except recreational travel. Bring on Asia, with its genius and work ethic. It’s the least destructive disruption that can save the world right now. /end