China is showing how its done- not that many in the decadent west are listening. Leading via engineering. China began in the early 2000s by setting energy efficiency as a primary objective- leading to China developing world leading productivity in PVs, wind, hydro, and nuclear power generation and in the manufacturing of LEDs, and high efficiency motors, EVs, batteries, air conditioning, and refrigeration. Building the renewable power generation and distribution technology that gives Chinese businesses long term strategic advantage over the financialised west that has forgotten how to build things. Britain first new nuclear power generation plant for 40years is being constructed by a French - Chinese consortium- how humiliating for Great Britain that once built its empire on engineering. China took US nuclear blueprints and improved them and is now building dozens of new nuclear power plants and at a fraction of the cost the sole new US nuclear plant will cost when it is eventually commissioned.

By focusing on engineering- how to design and build, China understands the basis of economic development- something the west pioneered but has forgotten in its neoliberal financialised decadence.

Smog is rapidly becoming a thing of the past in major Chinese cities as EVs replace fossil fueled cars, trucks and buses. Europe tried to do it but is mired in paralysis and politics while Chinas poliburo are 80% composed of engineers who are focused upon building a productive wealthy and sustainable future. To tackle energy and climate change you need engineering to the fore in the decision making process.

With USA now led by a sociopathic crony capitalist autocrat who denies the science of climate change because he is funded by big oil and coal and is dividing his own citizens along multiple lines, China is well positioned to gain not just economic leadership, but soft power credibility as USA declines into idiocracy and corruption.