Op-Ed: Biden’s Biggest Gift To China

This article originally appeared in Daily Caller on July 20, 2023

The Biden administration’s China outreach continued earlier this week as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry stepped up to the plate, following Secretaries Antony Blinken and Janet Yellen’s recent trips — and telling bowing and scraping to Chinese officials. For his part, Kerry vowed “no concessions” to China in this latest visit.

Americans can be forgiven for skepticism. The reality is that the Biden administration’s entire climate policy agenda is predicated on American “concessions” to China.

Kerry’s most recent jaunt to China offered just another chance to watch the disaster of this climate theater play out on the world stage.

Put simply, the Biden administration’s climate plans consist of subjugating American free-market prosperity in favor of a government-mandated “green energy transition” through a slew of burdensome regulations and market-manipulating subsidies. The efforts have been expansive, from more than a trillion in so-called Inflation Reduction Act spending that Kerry loves to tout to an all-out regulatory war on traditional American energy production.

The consequence? The U.S. becomes increasingly dependent on our adversaries for abundant resources we fail to harvest here at home while we send our special presidential envoy for Climate to convince other nations to join us on the road to de-growth. Unsurprisingly, this appeal often fails to persuade across the globe.

Instead of negotiating from a position of strength, Kerry’s brand of climate diplomacy consists of weakening the U.S. position by waging war on American energy in the name of climate goals, with hopes that our adversaries will join us rather than reaping the benefits of our self-destruction...

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