TIANJIN, China — China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, and is poised to expand even further this year.
China has also leapfrogged the West in the last two years to emerge as the world’s largest manufacturer of solar panels. And the country is pushing equally hard to build nuclear reactors and the most efficient types of coal power plants.
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We could put so many to work if we became competitive in this area! But this requires the kind of government leadership that gets labeled "socialism" in our fear-mongering, historically ignorant political culture. But I'd call this the handwriting on the wall, the era of U.S. dominance is coming to an end. Maybe this is not a bad thing. We can learn other ways to be in the world.
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