Topic
Politics
Published on
June 26, 2026
Civitas
Conversations
China’s Green Energy Dominance and the West’s Useful Idiots

The Cost of Conflict: White House and Human Rights

June 26, 2026
About this episode

Both in California and in Europe, China has influenced the Net Zero mandates of major Western economies, ensuring that those mandates specify electric vehicles, solar panels, and wind turbines rather than gas-fired generation or nuclear power, effectively writing itself a guaranteed order book.  In this episode of Civitas Conversations, Diana Furchtgott-Roth joins us to discuss her recent Outlook essay The Green New Dependency: How China Captured Western Climate Agendas.

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