posted on 2025-05-08, 17:08authored byJohn A. Mathews, Hao Tan
China’s energy strategies have attracted a huge amount of attention, precisely because they have been so effective. Chinese energy companies – from global oil and gas giants, to new wind and solar power success stories as well as electric grid operators, not to mention rising Electric Vehicle (EV) producers – have all had an impact on the industry, and sometimes shaken it up. In solar Photovoltaic (PV) cells there are aggressive counter-moves being made by both the US (and potentially the EU) against Chinese subsidized exports. These threaten to spill over into related sectors, and could trigger an all-out trade war.