This short summary presentation underscores and defines what many of us already understand about the continuing policy fails of the current administration and the ongoing misdirection(s), and global impacts. China's 'Belt and Road' program is still in place, and is very happy and healthy.
CNN, America needs to get SERIOUS !!!Fareed Sakaria, 6 minute video, October 5, 2025 after a short AD. CC available, but was set for the link.
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Technology advances at a fast pace. The anti-science protectionism policy of this administration only spells demise for US.
Here are a few reads I found revealing:
China in Charts:
the-chinese-economys-moment-of-macro-weakness-in-charts/
Government Stimulus and The China's Economic Impulse:
https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/04/gauging-the-strength-of-chinas-economy-in-uncertain-times/
Problem- The Chinese Real Estate Sector and Chinese Wealth Effect:
insights_understanding_china
China economy: Finding a cyclical floor amid a structural downturn:
https://oxfordeconomics.com/china-economy/
China's internal domestic economy has had serious and well documented problems particularly in the real estate sector. However, even the real estate sector has recently begun to stabilize and is slowly improving.
China's current consumption of coal ranks 12th per capitia. They are the number 1 user of coal in the world by weight, an astounding 50% share of the world coal usage. Another way of saying this, "China is half of the dirty coal problem...the rest of the world is the other half."
https://worldometers.info/coal/coal-consumption-by-country/
Lets look at current air quality stats, Real Time Air quality statistics:
China:
https://aqicn.org/map/china/
US:
https://aqicn.org/map/usa/
and,
worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/air-quality-by-state
Let's look at how the US and China produce energy by input fuels:
China: eia.gov/international/content/analysis/countries_long/China
US:
https://eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
Regarding Dire Real Estate Challenges in China (from the same news source (CNN) that @Catch22 sited): economy/china-property-crisis-stimulus-challenges-intl-hnk
The United States government, on the other hand, is attempting to terminate the installation of wind generation projects which are already near 80 or 90 percent of completion. Installation of additional wind and solar generation is being actively suppressed, while coal and oil based generation is being strongly promoted.
And the financial genius of one man is responsible for that.