We may wonder how it was not obvious that the world was caught in a covert Cold War. We don't have all the receipts to say that now, and may never get them, but we have the method, the motive and the opportunity.

As I keep saying there are so many advantages to China it would be crazy if it weren't manipulating the West to sabotage our own success. But Peter Doran and Brenda Shaffer have taken that further and written a very classy feature in Tablet.

They followed the money as far as they could, but many of the dollars vanish in a swamp of collected philanthropic funds which earnestly profess their angst and indignation against Western carbon emitters, but somehow cheer on China even though it accounts for 93% of all new coal constructions on Earth. A funny coincidence…

And so it is that China somehow ends up being in bed with Western lefties who say they hate carbon emissions but admire China. Then these Western institutions, PhD's, and NGO's tell the world how wonderful and advanced China is in renewables. This third party endorsement is also handy as a much more convincing than a press release from the CCP.  In effect, donating to a Green fund in the West would be one way of laundering propaganda, wouldn't it?

We know China already sends some money to Western charities to 'help' us clean up our environment. (It's so sweet of a developing nation to care about rich world pollution, don't you think?). But the end result of that donation could easily be viewed as an economic investment that damages the West and boosts Chinese trade.

The sums of money that can be traced back to China are in the hundreds of thousands or low million per individual.  But if a foreign entity was sending many millions of dollars to influence an adversary's policies, they wouldn't want to advertise that would they?

We know China sends money to universities and NGOs, through Energy Foundation China, and former CCP members were involved. To bluntly lay the hostility on the table — we have found secret communication devices in some Chinese electronic goods, we know the CCP lied about Covid, spread it to the world on planes from Wuhan, while stopping it at home, and we know of at least two suspicious biolabs in the US stocked with things labeled 'Ebola'. We know China is cutting submarine cables around Taiwan and in the Baltic sea, and possibly off Perth, Western Australia.

We would have to be pretty stupid to not even ask the question, just how much of the Climate obsession in the West is driven by China? China has already been caught funding eco-lawfare suits in the USA to sabotage American energy dominance. Thanks to Steve Milloy and Ballyboruma