纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英China Rules the Green Economy Heres Why Thats a Problem for Biden
May 10, 2024 2 min 339 words
《纽约时报》这篇报道的主要内容是：中国在绿色经济方面取得领先地位，拜登政府对此感到担忧，因为中国可能控制绿色技术和标准，影响美国竞争力和地缘政治格局。报道还提到拜登政府试图通过加强与盟友合作投资美国绿色产业等方式来应对中国在绿色经济领域的优势。 评论：这篇报道体现了西方媒体常见的“中国威胁论”叙事框架，过度夸大了中国在绿色经济领域对美国的竞争和挑战，忽视了绿色经济发展给全球带来的积极意义。中国在绿色经济领域的领先地位，是多年来坚持绿色发展理念大力投资和发展清洁能源产业的结果，也是中国作为负责任大国为全球应对气候变化做出的贡献。绿色经济的发展离不开国际合作，美中两国在这一领域各有所长，应该加强合作，共同推动全球绿色转型，而不是互相猜疑和竞争。此外，报道没有提到美国在绿色经济领域的结构性问题和自身责任，过于强调中国对美国构成的挑战，有失客观公正。
The world’s two most powerful countries, the United States and China, are meeting this week in Washington to talk about climate change. And also their relationship issues.
In an ideal world, where the clean energy transition was the top priority, they would be on friendlier terms. Maybe affordable Chinese-made electric vehicles would be widely sold in America, instead of being viewed as an economic threat. Or there would be less need to dig a lithium mine at an environmentally sensitive site in Nevada, because lithium, which is essential for batteries, could be bought worry-free from China, which controls the world’s supply.
Instead, in the not-ideal real world, the United States is balancing two competing goals. The Biden administration wants to cut planet-warming emissions by encouraging people to buy things like EVs and solar panels, but it also wants people to buy American, not Chinese. Its concern is that Chinese dominance of the global market for these essential technologies would harm the U.S. economy and national security.
Those competing goals will be at the center of talks on Wednesday and Thursday as the Biden Administration’s top climate envoy, John Podesta, meets for the first time with his counterpart from Beijing, Liu Zhenmin, in Washington.
Trade tensions are likely to loom over their meetings.
The flood of Chinese exports, particularly in solar panels and other green-energy technology, has become a real sore spot for the Biden administration as it tries to spur the same industries on American soil. Mr. Podesta has sharply criticized China for having “distorted the global market for clean energy products like solar, batteries and critical minerals.”
Not only that, he has set up a task force to explore how to limit imports from countries that have high carbon footprints, a practice that he called “carbon dumping.” That was considered a veiled reference to China.