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Trump’s efforts to split Europe and China on clean energy fall flat [1]
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Date: 2025-04-25 14:28:26+00:00
But the gathered ministers were largely looking beyond fossil fuels. European politicians, especially, spent the summit saying their future did not involve swapping Russian gas for American imports, but was led primarily by clean energy.
That's exactly the conclusion the U.S. wants to avoid.
Clean energy policies are “harmful and dangerous” and leave Europe open to “concessions to or coercion from China,” Tommy Joyce, acting assistant secretary of international affairs at the U.S. Energy Department, told delegates. Given China holds sway over large parts of the clean energy supply chain, rushing to go green meant “putting abstract emission goals and the interests of our adversaries first and the security of our people last,” he said.
Joyce’s speech was met with silence. The “awkward but unanimous” moment was “telling,” said one European official who was in the room.
Responding to Joyce’s comments, U.K. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband told POLITICO: “I think overall, I would say that the general tenor of these discussions indicates where people are going, which is toward a clean energy transition.”
Gone quiet
Behind closed doors on Friday, the U.S. delegation tried again to push the message that it was the most reliable energy partner in the world — and again slammed China, according to the European official.
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