Chinese tech companies are exploiting US green energy goals, former State Department officials warn

FOX News ^ | April 10, 2023 | By Thomas Catenacci

[Oldeconomybuyer]

EXCLUSIVE: Two former U.S. ambassadors are sounding the alarm on the increasing number of green energy projects nationwide being developed with the involvement of Chinese companies.

Former U.S. Ambassadors Peter Hoekstra and Joseph Cella said Chinese companies, which are subject to strict Chinese laws, have made a concerted effort to take advantage of U.S. green energy goals. The companies, they said, are exploiting American tax incentives to build facilities and projects in the U.S., bolstering Chinese industry and ensuring continued U.S. reliance on technology from China.

"It'd be very ironic if we moved towards electric vehicles to the numbers that the Biden administration is talking about and the key component comes from China," Hoekstra, who served as U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands from 2018 until 2021, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "That is a terrible, terrible place to be."

"Right now electric vehicle sales are about 3 to 5% of new automobile sales," he continued. "Now is the time for the U.S. to establish its own capabilities rather than increasing reliance on an unreliable and a threatening adversary."

Hoekstra added that China's dominance throughout the green energy supply chain, from developing critical mineral mines in Africa to building battery components, exhibits intentionality that is "very perilous not only for our national security, but our economic security and prosperity as well."

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[glorgau]

Sure. Why wouldn’t they?

[neverevergiveup]

When you have a House in which only 50% of the members have professional degrees - and 65% of those are lawyers, and a Senate in which only 44% of the members have profession degrees - and 75% of those are attorneys, you can see why fantasy and ideology, not facts, are what drives our legislative branch.

How would these people know what's best for energy production / energy policy? Or healthcare? Or fiscal policy? Or foreign policy? Or military preparedness? Or pretty-much anything?

Seriously. For the record, I am not saying that having a profession degree makes you a better person, smarter, or makes your opinions automatically more valid. What I am saying is that the smarminess of Congressional office holders is not justified, in the least, and that they generally have little if any advanced knowledge about the things they vote on.

[LastDayz]

The real question is: What are the chinese not exploiting?

[butlerweave]

Green now means SCAM

[antidemoncrat]

“Two former U.S. ambassadors are sounding the alarm on the increasing number of green energy projects nationwide being developed with the involvement of Chinese companies.”

And yet China’s “Green Energy” still is based on coal????

[PGR88]

Didn’t need an “official” government report for this.

Its been obvious for the last 10 years

China controls the supply chain for rare-earths, photovoltaics, and increasingly, battery storage.

[huldah1776]

hmmm. how many of our bases are going green with crud made in china? 100%
what else is added to this crap. remember the balloon tech?

[Vaduz]

And yet China’s “Green Energy” still is based on coal.

They understand what systems work and don’t.

Don’t see China going green for a reason.

[antidemoncrat]

But they are helping the Greeniacs, along with some members of Congre$$, in the US to force their policies down our throats.

[Drew68]

And yet China’s “Green Energy” still is based on coal????

The Chinese aren't stupid enough to crash their economy over this climate change nonsense.

They'll gladly help us crash ours though.

[Vaduz]

Not force their policies down our throats but bribing those who are now in charge voting them out is the only way to end the Chinese ownership of America.