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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has twisted the climate change movement into a political and economic weapon against the West, according to a new report by The Global Warming Policy Foundation, a London-based non profit.

Titled “China’s Energy Dream,” the report details the CCP’s manipulation of international climate agreements and comes to a startling conclusion: “China uses climate policy both as a way to strengthen its economy and as a weapon for weakening other countries.”

According to the report’s author Patricia Adams, ample evidence of this corruption was seen at the recent “COP 26” climate summit held in Glasgow. At China’s insistence, an agreement to “phase out” the use of coal-burning power plants, was changed to “phase down”—allowing for China’s continued use of coal for power. This last-minute change allowed the COP26 delegates to celebrate a new climate deal that included China, the world’s largest greenhouse gas polluter.

For China, it was a double victory, allowing Beijing to claim a commitment to a clean energy future without having to sacrifice its heavy dependence on the fossil fuels it needs to power its economy.

Adams is the executive director of Toronto-based non profit Probe International, and has spent 30 years studying environmental problems in China and the CCP’s manipulation of the environmental movement. The title of her new report is a play on Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream” slogan he has used repeatedly since he became leader of the CCP in 2012. It’s a term used to capture the regime’s official aspirations—from sustainable development to international prestige.

“China’s Energy Dream” shows how heavily Xi’s dream depends on fossil fuels: “For the regime to survive, and that is surely the CCP’s top priority, fossil fuels for economic growth must be secure.” For this reason, the report explains, “the pursuit of CO₂ reductions within China would serve nei­ther the goal of preserving Communist rule nor becoming the world’s foremost superpower by 2049. Carbon dioxide reductions only make sense for those it wishes to harm and supplant.”

Economic Warfare

According to Adams’ new report, China is using climate change policy as covert economic warfare. “China is doing everything it can to encourage the West to continue its pursuit of climate reforms,” writes Adams, while the CCP only pretends to play along. As the United States and other advanced economies grapple with the challenges of a low-carbon economy, “China is going all out, domestically and internationally, to secure more and more fossil fuels to power its economy and achieve world superpower supremacy.”

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