Posted on 01/23/2024 5:19:43 AM PST by Twotone
Six mayors from the United States participated in an exchange with the Chinese government in which they traveled to take part in the U.S. Heartland China Association's Yangtze-Mississippi Municipality Energy Transition Exchange project.
The mayors who made the trip were Mayor Jim Brainard of Carmel, Indiana; Mayor Barbara Buffaloe of Columbia, Missouri; Mayor Lee Harris of Shelby County, Tennessee; Mayor Chokwe Lumumba from Jackson, Mississippi; Mayor Kim Norton of Rochester, Minnesota; and Mayor Robyn Tannehill of Oxford, Mississippi.
The exchange was officially part of an effort to promote best practices between communities along the two major rivers, particularly in regards to "energy transition, climate mitigation, and green economy."
The two sides discussed opportunities for possible collaboration and took a trip to Voyah Automobile, a Chinese-state owned luxury car manufacturer now specializing in electric vehicles. The cars are reportedly sold in Russia, Israel, Turkey, and Belarus, as well as China.
As reported by Natalie Winters, several of the mayors praised China's approach to green energy policies. Specifically, electric vehicle investments and alleged carbon-reducing infrastructure were Chinese policies that some of the mayors hoped to implement in the United States.
"We were talking about climate change," said Columbia, Missouri, Mayor Buffaloe. "I know that in order for us to solve climate change, or at least reduce the impacts it's having on our communities and make sure we have a planet for our future generations, that it's going to take us working on things like electrical vehicle transformation, renewable energy both production, as well as scale and supply."
Buffaloe went on to state that the "best practices" she learned in China should be implemented in American communities.
"It's about our communities learning from one another, sharing these best practices, and then implementing them in our own communities. We need all kinds of exchanges with China."
Shelby County, Tennessee, Mayor Harris praised Chinese investments surrounding carbon emissions.
"China is quickly making the right kinds of investments, and those are investments in infrastructure, that's investments in reducing carbon emissions, that's investments in new tech like electric vehicles, and we've got a lot of work to do."
Mayor Brainard of Carmel, Indiana, said that the work conducted alongside Chinese politicians should be implement worldwide.
"Collaboration between U.S. and Chinese mayors not only benefits the hundreds of millions of people living in our two countries, but the ongoing joint work will lead to best practices that can be applied around the world."
Brainard also signed a sister cities agreement between Carmel, Indiana, and Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
China is building coal power plants by the hundreds. They are just making these organ grinder monkeys dance for their pennies.
Idiots.
That’s what I remember also.
Unfortunately, for politicians, it's the Taxpayer's money they're givin' away for the Climate Change Scam global elites to profit from.........
Oh puhleez, China is one of the filthiest countries in the world,
What a bunch of bullshi...er...bull Dorkbama.
Any wagers as to how many of those mayors are Dums?
That’s O.K. When they make China unlivable, they’ll just move in, here.
I’m not sure why these clowns would go to Wuhan, unless something happened there…
Will they still be singing China’s praises when their economy implodes?
CC
Any wagers as to how many of those mayors are Dums?
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Which is why it’s not ironic that what they are really praising is centralized power.... which should be ironic, because they are just mayors. But the {D} wins
They’re already here. Maybe folks don’t understand the scale of excess population china, india and africa have. It completely dwarfs the population of the USA. If they just sent a small fraction of their population here, which they are doing, then it will completely overwhelm normal Americans. It’s called genocide.
A gathering of Lefties.
Praising electric cars. Nuts.
I'm old enough to have seen an organ grinder and his monkey. The monkey passed the cup around, but the organ grinder emptied the cup into his own pocket. The metaphor seems wholly apt.
China and its "growth" in coal energy is making the Western environmentalists look like economic fools. "Green energy policies" is a phrase taken out of Nudge Theory 101. "To influence change" but in which direction?
I wonder if these black mayor’s realize that the Chinese hate black people?
They consider them equal to Muslims, and they HATE muslims.
Brainard is a Repub. Rhino? Don’t know.
Got friends out there. I’ll have to see what they think.
There are cities of over a million people in China in which there are no buildings over two stories high. This is because many structures made with concrete in China have no rebar steel embedded to prevent crumbling and cracking.
China is a Potemkin fraud of epic proportions.
These American mayors visiting China are fools to admire the “movie sets” they are permitted to visit.
WOW , they think China is real
Yes, we’re an “unending, self-filling pool” of money, for those clowncar asswipes. Sad to say..
Barbara Buffaloe from Missouri?!
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