Jeez, the duplicitous ghoulishness of the author:

Beijing’s decades-long effort to dominate the world’s clean energy economy is enabling it to woo tight business alliances with governments in Africa, Asia and Latin America — without insisting on the labor and environmental safeguards that the United States and European Union typically demand.

So somehow actually doing something about clean energy is bad for the environment because checks notes "China not doing the 'safeguards' that the empire supposedly is"??? Safeguards like what? Going full speed ahead on fracking?

Trump has also pledged to shred Biden administration clean energy policies that were designed to weaken Chinese control of key technologies.

"Who cares about the environment, all that matters is empire!"

They predicted this will give China an advantage not only in climate policy but in broader economic and security disputes. And it could lead to global climate progress rolling out in a way that serves China’s goals, benefiting its clean-technology industries while allowing fossil fuels to stay dominant for decades to come.

??? How does the one follow from the other at all?

The U.S. and EU have long prodded China to accelerate its pivot from fossil fuels. As the world’s top climate polluter, responsible for 30 percent of the world’s planet-heating gases, China has often resisted that pressure.

World class liars. The country that hosts Exxon, which buried and slandered climate research for decades, which won't even respond properly to natural disasters in its own designated territory, which has more money for dropping tons of bombs to genocide a people in another country and in doing so, worsening the climate all the more, which genocided the indigenous population that were caretakers of the local environment in the first place—we're supposed to believe they're responsible climate caretakers and China isn't.

They have tried to dissuade nations from blindly accepting Chinese energy investments, warning that all those yuan may bring foreign policy repercussions or hidden costs, such as the possible transfer of ownership of natural resources or transportation infrastructure like ports to Beijing.

"Hey, don't leave us, they might do to you what we did to you!"

"We must commit to increasing fossil fuel consumption to deny China a livable planet in which they could possibly succeed in a market competition."

We can all burn, drown or freeze to death together if we don't stop seeing this as a race