The Petrodollar vs. the Electroyuan | Chinese Renewable Energy is Reshaping Global Finance

https://afripoli.org/the-petrodollar-vs-the-electroyuan

by Which-Sun-3746

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  2. Interesting article.

      China will destabilize the old guard by selling cheap, green electricity all over the planet.

      Other reports have shown China can already produce enough solar panels to feed current global supply, with room for growth, at cheap prices. That will crush the petrol states fairly quickly. They will face huge oversupply while China will just keep growing supply.

  3. Excellent link. Many articles have been posted here about how much clean energy China is building and exporting, this takes the next step and asks what it means. This is a centrally planned economy. While we shouldn’t imagine that they have unlimited foresight, we should absolutely assume that when the Five Year Plan for 2021-25 was written, they had done extensive modelling about the trade economics of exporting the energy tech they subsidized the construction of, and how it would impact other global economic structures like the Petrodollar.

    We’re at a point where [clean energy is 10% of China’s GDP.](https://energyandcleanair.org/analysis-clean-energy-contributed-a-record-10-of-chinas-gdp-in-2024/) Clen energy exports are about [1% of GDP.](https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202507/24/WS688167eda310ad07b5d919c7.html) (note that the source for that second claim is Chinese state media) If you consider that the rest of the world could easily use just as much solar, wind, batteries, and EVs as China does today, the potential for growth is staggering. That growth is *happening; it appears to have significant momentum behind it.*

    Final thought, and probably no one here needs to hear it, but I just need to say it. You can’t say both “China is getting a head of us economically” and “Clean energy is a scam”. If it was a scam it would be holding them back.

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