Washington Examiner
· collected 2026-09-08 · by Perry V. Kalajian
China is being touted as a leader in manufacturing climate-change-related products such as solar panels and battery storage systems, but it also leads the world in greenhouse gas emissions. According to the article, China produces around 35% of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions annually, with much of its power production coming from fossil fuels including dirty coal. The article suggests that climate change activists may be financially supported by Beijing to downplay China's own environmental issues and instead focus on criticizing the US. This criticism is noted as being in line with China's interest in displacing the US as a global superpower.
Written by the local model on 2026-09-08,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
China touts itself as being the world leader in manufacturing climate-change-related products and the processing of minerals related thereto.
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China → tout → minerals
While true, this hardly tells the whole story.
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this → tell → story
China manufactured about 85% of all solar panels globally in 2025, with no other country (exclusive of possibly Vietnam, where solar panel manufacturing data is uncertain) producing more than around 2.8%.
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data → manufacture → %
Both transition minerals, and its subset, rare earth minerals, are used in the manufacture of climate change-related products.
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minerals → use → products
China in 2025 controlled about 70% to 90% of the worldwide transition mineral processing capacity.
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China → control → capacity
In 2025, with respect to rare earth minerals, China produced roughly 69% of the world’s supply and controlled about 90% of global refined output.
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China → produce → output
To the climate change activists, China’s record on the creation of climate change-related products is admirable.
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record → relate → products
Unfortunately, this is only part of China’s story as it relates to climate change.
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it → relate → change
Also, of China’s more than 10,000 terawatt-hours of power production in 2025, approximately 6,000 hours were derived from fossil fuels, with much of this fossil fuel power being produced by the burning of dirty coal.
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much → derive → coal
While leaning toward the use of much cleaner natural gas as opposed to coal, in 2025, the U.S. came in at roughly 2,500 terawatt-hours of fossil fuel power creation, less than half of China’s output.
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U.S. → lean → output
China accounts for about 35% of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions annually, making it the planet’s largest emitter.
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it → account → emissions
Meanwhile, the U.S., the globe’s second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, comes in at around 12% annually, considerably less than half of China’s output.
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U.S. → come → output
China’s leading the world on emitting greenhouse gases cannot please the climate change crusaders, yet you hear little from the climate change zealots when it comes to this fact.
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it → lead → fact
Meanwhile, the climate change alarmists continue to harass the U.S. for not taking sufficient action to address their perceived climate change crisis.
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alarmists → continue → crisis
It is entirely possible, if not probable, that the climate change crowd is being directly or indirectly paid or at least supported in some manner by Beijing to carry China’s water on the climate change issue.
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crowd → pay → issue
Due to limited fossil fuel reserves of its own that fall short of the country’s needs, and not for any benevolent climate-change-related reason, China is forced to lean on the production of renewable energy to power its dream of displacing the U.S. as the world’s leading superpower.
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China → fall → superpower
On the other hand, the U.S., which is among the global leaders in fossil fuel reserves, has prudently, under President Donald Trump, reduced its emphasis on costly renewable energy and turned to economical fossil fuels to support America’s economy in its quest to maintain its position as the world’s preeminent superpower.
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which → reduce → superpower
Faced with this fossil fuel disadvantage, it is easy to see how China’s propaganda machine might want to support those promoting the position that climate change is real, with such action providing the dual benefit of supporting China’s sales of climate change-related products globally, while hurting the U.S.
Also, China is locked in a battle with the U.S. for worldwide artificial intelligence supremacy.
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China → face → supremacy
Recently in the U.S., a considerable amount of conjectural negative information has been disseminated about the detrimental impact, both environmentally, including with respect to climate change, and economically, of data centers crucial to the artificial intelligence race.
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amount → disseminate → race
Many believe that this unfavorable information with respect to data centers is false or an exaggeration.
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information → believe → centers
Regardless, it is easy to see how a disinformation campaign by Beijing with respect to the theoretically harmful effects of data centers, including their supposed adverse impact on climate change, could delay or prevent the construction of such critical facilities in the U.S. and provide a benefit to China in this competition as it continues to build its own data centers.
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Unfortunately, due to a loophole in U.S. law with respect to donations to U.S. tax-exempt, nonprofit 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organizations, funds can easily and without identification be funneled into America to support disinformation campaigns by China, detrimental to our country.
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funds → funnel → country
The U.S. must take action to expose (and combat) any climate change-driven propaganda campaigns and other disinformation operations waged by China that are aimed at hurting America.
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