There is still the probability that China’s CO2 emissions peaked in 2023. Final tally will come this year. And certainty that they will be even lower in 2025.

A hopeful/sustainable country can tolerate immigration. Higher birth rates requires affordability of having children, and immigration fills the lower ranks of the power/labour hierarchy while permitting more affordability to natives who might have better access to education.

Societies that corruptly subjugate themselves to a hedgemon that inflicts war and climate destruction against people it teaches you to hate, but who also emigrate to your society, creates conflict that will deflect from the hate your hegemon wants your natives to internalize.

When a society does not feel being on the verge of collapse, investing in education and immigration is worth it. Future benefits of growth and prosperity will result. Right, center, left governments everywhere are corruptly managing collapse. The only countries doing well economically are those who are not subjecting themselves to US hegemony, and pursuing independence. Most of these countries get labeled as fascist by the deeply subjugated and their hedgemon.

The propaganda of hate is global, even if targeted domestically. The propaganda of hedgemonic subjugation is also global, but the collapsing corruption that is supported, helps hate win.

When your society has chosen total subjugated marriage/alliance to the US, Trump comes along to tell you what a worthless undevoted parasite you are, and the likely response from your leaders will be to destroy your country further, and enable fascism to gain traction, even if the fascist wing can distract from the collapsing subjugation to continue the subjugation.

Terrible framing of global warming, for which victory or defeat is a matter for humanity. Needing your home country to dominate clean energy is not helpful. It is also economically destructive in the case of solar, as 90% of a solar development project costs is other components than solar modules. US policies, whether democrat or republican, will always favour oil dominance, as oil is key to war, and having something to fight over.

China is winning the energy race. Its solar silicon industry annual capacity is 5x the energy of global oil reserves. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/renewables/solar-powers-giants-are-providing-more-energy-than-big-oil/articleshow/110988156.cms?from=mdr

Complaints about China solving humanity’s sustainable energy needs with abundance, by claiming to want to add to global capacity with poorly competing home alternatives is necessarily dishonest protection of home oil dominance, and prioritizing destroying humanity for its oil profit maximization, rather than human sustainability.

The EU is implementing a system known as a carbon border adjustment mechanism, which would tax imported raw materials made through dirty processes — and supporters of the concept hope Trump might pursue a similar approach.

A carbon tax, applied to consumption origin in international trade, is indeed the only worthwhile policy. This can only help China, as anyone, including China, wanting to avoid taxes at home or on exports should install Chinese solar and other clean energy. Much of China’s polysilicon processing is already 100% solar self powered.