Europe’s Green Suicide Is China’s Dream — America Must Not Repeat It

American Greatness ^ | October 2, 2025 | Phillip Turek

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Europe bankrolled China’s rise through green dogma—Trump and Vance warn America must choose sovereignty and strength or repeat Europe’s surrender.

I serve as a Member of the European Parliament, and for many years, I have advocated for the automotive industry. I have spent years fighting misguided climate and automotive policies that cripple our industries. From that front-row seat, I can tell you plainly: Europe’s leaders have bankrolled China’s empire. If America follows the same path, you will hand Beijing the 21st century.

As President Trump reminded the United Nations, nations that surrender their sovereignty in pursuit of applause inevitably collapse into dependence. His warning—that global bureaucrats do not answer to working families—was prophetic. Europe ignored it, choosing ideological prestige over resilience. America cannot afford the same fatal miscalculation.

China’s ambition isn’t subtle. For centuries, it saw itself as the Middle Kingdom, the center of civilization. The West humiliated it in the Opium Wars, and it never forgot. When Deng Xiaoping opened China in the late 1970s, his bargain with the West was simple: we’ll build anything, at any price—if you ignore pollution and human rights. The West agreed. Forty years later, China is stronger than ever, and the West is weaker.

Japan rose from the ashes of World War II, and then South Korea followed with its own miracle. But China learned something far more dangerous: don’t just copy the West; weaponize the West’s own ideals.

That’s exactly what Beijing has done with the climate agenda. Europeans buy “green” cars to feel virtuous. Yet every electric battery depends on lithium, cobalt, and rare earths mined in Africa under horrific conditions and refined in Chinese plants. Beijing locked down the...

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China donates to green political action groups to pay western leaders to bow to China’s energy policies and weaken the west. Including here in the U.S.

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Last article I read made it seem too late for the U.S. China apparently has massive amounts of energy sitting unused and available, about twice the current demand. Article pointed out that Chinese energy policy is being set by engineers, in the U.S. lawyers are setting policy.