Electric vehicle demand is plummeting, and consumers still won't buy them without massive subsidies. No one has ever done a full lifecycle cost/benefit environmental analysis of EV vs. ICE vehicles. On the other hand, it is the case that clean natural gas harms the environment less than poorly planned and non-recycled wind/solar, and so the fact that the Chinese Communist Party of China is ahead in all this means that they're digging deep into loser technologies that actually are worse for the environment and for the economy. Ditto with AI: Not only is their AI infrastructure likely massively polluting (https://medium.com/non-violence/we-should-ban-all-apps-from-authoritarian-polluting-regimes-like-the-chinese-communist-party-6370ba58ac53), but also DeepSeek seems like a copy of OpenAI. If you want an alternative perspective on China: https://www.youtube.com/@ZeihanonGeopolitics