From the article:

Chinese companies have Communist Party cells active inside them — the secretary of the cell is the most powerful person in the company. After all, he (and it normally it is a he) represents the masters in Beijing and can over-rule the company’s board. However, conflict between a company board and party cell is hardly common. In 2016, President Xi decreed that the positions of party secretary and chairman of a Chinese company’s board should be occupied by the same person.

All of this applies to the state-owned China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN), which owns a third of the nuclear power station being built at Hinkley Point and hopes to be involved in the construction of two more nuclear plants, at Sizewell in Suffolk and Bradwell in Essex. The personnel of CGN is typical of any CCP-sponsored company. Until a few months ago, its chairman in Shenzhen, was a man called He Yu, who doubled as the secretary of the company’s Communist Party cell. He was instrumental in securing CGN’s investment in the Hinkley power plant.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha. But seriously, ROTFLMAO.

Yes. It is as if the warmers/greens can’t see that our standard of living is due to reliable energy at affordable prices and a balanced economy. With the Chinese trying to become the world’s supplier of manufactured goods, you would think they would see that we need an economy that is not over dependent on China. If nothing else, the pandemic has shown this to be true. China actually has a lot of leverage over us in many areas of manufacturing. Then, of course, there’s the fact that China is continuing to build coal fired power plants at a rapid clip. I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the Paris Climate Accords nations tell the Chinese to quit building coal fired plants. (Not holding my breath on that one.)

Your German example is also plain to see for any who are interested.

I feel like a toothless old lion I saw in Africa. Roaring at the sky and anyone who will listen while knowing it’s just noise blowing in the wind. But, like the lion, it makes me feel like I’m still alive. 🙂

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/01/19/germany-weighs-electricity-rationing-scheme-to-stabilize-its-now-shaky-green-power-grid/

Many industrial processes use a lot of electricity, and countries that maintain a reliable and cost-effective electrical infrastructure will have a huge economic advantage when it comes to manufacturing.

And that’s when all the nice white people who were so upset by Trump’s mean tweets vote for someone who makes Trump look like Casper Milquetoast.

Mike

That may be the case in Europe, where the governing elite are serious about actually running things. I’m not sure that it’s true in America, where virtue-signaling seems to be the primary motivation for most things.

Mike

It’s somewhat akin to the lockdown strategy for defeating the virus. The lockdowns’ knock on effects maybe worse than the pandemic itself. Just as substituting solar and wind for fossil fuels will certainly be worse than adapting to whatever warming will happen in the next 100 years.

Reliance on “green” energy is going to result in frequent power outages. It will be like living in India, where we knew electricity would go out for hours at a time, but just not always when.