How Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Make China Great Again


FILE — A solar panel farm in Riesel, Texas, Aug. 5, 2023. (Mason Trinca/The New York Times)

Can you hear it — that loud roar coming from the East? It’s the sound of 1.4 billion Chinese laughing at us.

The Chinese simply can’t believe their luck: that at the dawn of the electricity-guzzling era of artificial intelligence, the U.S. president and his party have decided to engage in one of the greatest acts of strategic self-harm imaginable. They have passed a giant bill that, among other craziness, deliberately undermines America’s ability to generate electricity through renewables — solar, battery and wind power in particular.

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