They broke down y into all these different energy sources and made a pie chart. So roughly 25% of y was solar PV.
This was a P0 national security issue, So China hyper-invested into alternative energy technologies, subsidizing and overproducing solar technologies at a loss, while investing in electric transportation and moving away from fossil fuels. It's paying off. Over the past 25 years, this strategy is proving to be very successful and by the end of this decade, the Malacca weakness will be overcome.
As a result, the rest of the world gets to enjoy cheap solar energy and cheap EVs.
These are not solvable issues, the EU and China are not aligned at a fundamental level.
In contrast, EU/Russia and EU/US relationships actually make more sense, because both partners have mutual self-interest to maintain a relationship.
Would love to know how you can defend the claim that the EU and China are fundamentally not aligned, unlike the EU Russia and EU US.
Russia is at war with a country that wants to join the EU. The US almost invaded EU territory at the start of this year and threatened to leave NATO. China and the EU have done nothing but sign trade agreements throughout all that time
So nothing except the world's largest market of wealthy consumers, the very thing the Chinese economy needs.
Seems like you're underplaying the European hand here...
The technology thing is complicated. Europe still makes quite a lot of high end stuff like Airbus, Rolls Royce jet engines, Mercs, German/Swiss machine tooling, F1 cars etc. But the Chinese are cheaper for normal gizmos.
