China is leaving the US in the dust when it comes to clean energy, whilst the White House shuts down investment into clean energy, preferring to embrace fossil fuels in a short-sighted move, clearly a result of heavy lobbying by the fossil fuel industry.
Xi Jinping’s government is happy to take the lead as the US flounders yet again in another area of progress, as directed by the Trump administration.
China is the largest manufacturer of solar panels, wind turbines and batteries. Solar capacity in China more than doubled in 2024 and the accelerated transition to clean energy has continued through 2025.
According to IEA projections, China will account for 60% of all new renewable capacity added worldwide by 2030, with renewables currently supplying more than 35% of China’s electricity needs.
Meanwhile the US has slowed their progress and is on track to fall significantly short of demand for wind, solar and battery. President Trump has set about destroying previous clean energy projects enacted by Biden. Ostensibly simply because President Biden funded them, Trump wants to defund them.

President Trump has called coal “beautiful” bizarrely, becoming one of the planet’s foremost advocates of fossil fuels. Coincidentally, reports about Trump’s suffering from dementia and other health issues continue to swirl.
Not content with just torpedoing the USA’s progress in clean energy, Trump has sought to lambast other countries’ investment in clean energy, irrationally scolding the UK for wind turbine investment. Some observers noticed that Trump was seemingly radicalised against wind turbines when he viewed them near his Scottish golf course in 2011, calling them ugly, disgusting and pathetic.
Trump, like many unintelligent conspiracy theorists, see climate change as a hoax, something that every current fact about the climate refutes with ease. Climate change is clearly not a hoax, and every sensible world leader is pursuing clean energy.
Just two weeks ago, Trump decided to slash 8 billion dollars in federal funding for clean energy development, primarily in Democratic-led areas. Importantly this is an illegal cancellation of funding, as it’s up to Congress to remove funding. Nevertheless the US over the last year has lost its rule of law and continues to slide into fascism and towards disaster.
In spite of the USA’s failings in this area, China and the UK continue to be the two countries leading the way in clean energy adoption. Last year the news came out that 2024 was the first year that global warming exceeded 1.5℃, a sobering statistic that foretells some of the disasters to come in regards to climate change the world will undergo.
Both the UK and China have set ambitious net zero goals, and have been working hard to achieve them. Whilst the USA continues to look backwards in many areas, these countries are instead looking forwards to a better future, with many collaborations in clean energy already in progress.