Commentary
California politicians and influencers like to boast how the state is “poised to become the world’s fourth biggest economy.” Yet they obviously remain ignorant about what’s really going on across the globe. Consider this story in the liberal-progressive Financial Times, hardly a bastion of conservatism: “China’s dominance of solar poses difficult choices for the west: The unpalatable truth is that green technologies mean we will have to find ways to co-operate with Beijing.”
Well, maybe we wouldn’t have to “co-operate” if we had sensible polices here in California and the rest of America, instead of a peristaltic “green obsession.” The article is by Graham Allison, a professor of government at Harvard University and author of “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?”…