"China actually added record amounts of both wind and solar power capacity in 2025. And according to some calculations, it may even have reached peak CO2 emissions way ahead of its planned trajectory. The vast Asian country also provides the lion's share of the world's clean tech required for the global energy transition manufacturing over 80% of solar panels, 60% of wind turbines and 75% of electrical vehicles (EVs) and batteries."
""On the economic and industrial front, the US has been left behind, and as a result of the very hostile approach of the current administration to decarbonization, the US will be further left behind," Li Shuo, director of the China Climate Hub at the US-based Asia Society Policy Institute, told DW. By "recklessly leaving many international climate and energy related fora," the US is giving up its political influence, he added."
"The Trump administration stopped participating and funding 66 international organizationsit deemed contrary to the country's national interests, security, economic prosperity, or sovereignty. "It has stepped away from science that everybody in the world accepts," David M. Hart, a senior fellow for climate and energy with the US think tank The Council on Foreign Relations, told DW. "It's a foolish decision and will hurt the US in the long run.""
China installed record wind and solar capacity in 2025, including 120 GW of wind power, and may have reached peak CO2 emissions ahead of schedule. China produces the majority of global clean-tech manufacturing: over 80% of solar panels, 60% of wind turbines and 75% of electric vehicles and batteries. The United States has stopped participating in and funding 66 international organizations and has stepped away from widely accepted scientific collaboration, adopting a hostile stance on decarbonization that risks further economic, industrial and political decline. China pursues heavy deployment and manufacturing without overtly seeking public climate leadership.
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