This article analyzes how global climate-policy frameworks overwhelmingly benefit China while imposing massive economic burdens on Japan, the United States, and Europe. While China, India, and Russia refuse deeper cuts, Japan follows the U.S. into unrealistic CO₂ targets. The essay argues that the “climate-crisis narrative” lacks scientific basis and is promoted by media propaganda, enabling China to expand geopolitical power through UN processes, energy markets, and green-tech supply chains. A critical, data-driven examination of how decarbonization has become a strategic trap for the West.

China Benefits While the West Suffers from Foolish Climate Policies — China Laughs Loudly

May 9, 2024

China, India, Russia did not agree at all to deeper emission-cutting targets. As a result, Japan, the U.S., and Europe ended up bearing a one-sided, enormous economic burden.
June 4, 2021

The current issue of the monthly magazine Seiron, now on sale, features a special section titled “Opposition to Decarbonization.”
Like Hanada and WiLL, it is because Japan is a country where “the turntable of civilization” continues to spin that the world’s finest essays are written day and night and published monthly.
Japanese people should immediately head to the nearest bookstore and subscribe.
It is filled with the world’s best essays and costs only 900 yen (tax included).
There is nothing in this world as inexpensive as books.

People who spend their time only on SNS exchanges or smartphone games may rightly be called modern-day idiots.
No—one cannot say it is too much to claim that producing such people in large numbers is precisely China’s intention.

What I have written repeatedly based on “intuition,” as defined by one of the world’s greatest scholars, Furuta Hiroshi, has been published as a world-class paper by Sugiyama Taishi, a true researcher.
As noted earlier, he possesses a brain worthy of having studied at the University of Tokyo.

There are many University of Tokyo graduates in politics, government, academia, business, and journalism.
And yet why is there no one who says the completely natural things that he says about climate policy?
It must be because even those who enter and graduate from the University of Tokyo are a mixture of the excellent and the mediocre.
It proves that many of them are merely exam-cramming honor students.

This paper is the most important one today, and is essential reading not only for the Japanese people but for people around the world.
Sugiyama Taishi deserves the Nobel Prize for this paper alone.
However, what this paper makes clear is how foolish the world truly is.

As I mentioned yesterday, the criminal act of erasing this column from search results has intensified.
This paper must be read sentence by sentence not only by Japanese citizens but by everyone in the world.

For these two reasons, I am disseminating it divided into as many sections as possible.

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Foolish Climate Policies That Only Benefit China

Under the Suga administration, Japan’s climate-policy runaway shows no sign of stopping.
Japan is to reduce CO₂ by almost half by 2030 and aims for zero by 2050.
Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has hinted at mandatory installation of solar panels.
Such policies not only destroy Japan’s economy but also threaten human rights in Xinjiang and Japan’s national security.

At the April 22 climate summit hosted by the United States, Prime Minister Suga declared:
“Japan will aim to reduce greenhouse gases including CO₂ by 46% by 2030 compared to 2013 levels, and will continue to challenge toward the high level of 50%.”
This amount is more than 20% above the existing target of 26%.

At the summit, while advanced nations all promised to reduce CO₂ by roughly half by 2030, China and others did not respond at all to the deeper emission cuts the U.S. demanded.
Japan’s 46–50% target was simply keeping pace with the U.S. which pledged 50–52%.
Japan is always in lockstep with the U.S.
When agreeing to the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, Japan set its target at 6%, just 1% less than the U.S. target of 7%.
In the 2015 Paris Agreement, Japan set the exact same 26% as the U.S.
Both times the U.S. once agreed but later reneged.
Japan, following in step, had the ladder pulled out from under it twice.

This time the ladder will certainly be pulled away again.
Half of the U.S. Congress—the Republican Party—knows perfectly well that the so-called “climate crisis” is fake.
Moreover, the U.S. is the world’s top oil and gas producer, and even Democratic lawmakers will rebel for the sake of their state industries, voting with Republicans against climate policies.
For this reason, systems such as carbon taxes or emissions trading will never pass Congress.
The U.S. simply cannot make major reductions in CO₂.

Why then does the U.S. cling to targets it cannot meet?
Because it is based on the “climate-crisis theory”:
“The planet is in danger, warming must be limited to 1.5°C, therefore CO₂ must be halved by 2030 and net-zero by 2050.”
This is promoted by compliant scholars and believed by Western elites and the U.S. Democratic Party.
But looking at statistics on typhoons and hurricanes, no increase in severity is observed; the climate-crisis theory is nothing but fake.
Nevertheless, the compliant media—CNN, NHK, etc.—ignore inconvenient facts, proclaim “the science is settled,” silence dissent, and spread propaganda.

The Biden administration’s main purpose at the summit was to satisfy domestic believers in the climate-crisis theory, especially the left wing of the Democratic Party, such as Senator Sanders, who are gaining influence.

However, China, India, and Russia did not agree at all to deeper targets.
As a result, Japan, the U.S., and Europe ended up shouldering a one-sided, enormous economic burden.

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China Laughs Loudly

At the climate summit, China’s Xi Jinping delivered a confident speech.
He said, “China welcomes the U.S. return to the Paris Agreement,”
thereby pointing out the unreliability of the U.S., whose policy changes with each administration.
He also made clear that the official negotiating venue is the United Nations, not a U.S.-led summit.

China’s intention is “not to allow the U.S. to maintain hegemony using the environment as a pretext.”
As the COVID-19 pandemic has made widely known, the United Nations is a favorable venue for China.
Many developing countries of the “G77” bloc take the position that:
“Developing countries have the right to economic development,
and advanced countries, responsible for past CO₂ emissions, should take the lead in reducing CO₂.”
China is their leader.

If they were genuinely “good developing countries,” their claim to development rights would be entirely reasonable.
But for countries that engage in territorial expansion or human-rights violations, the argument is absurd.
Still, in the UN arena, many developing countries support China.
Even regarding the suppression of pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong, when advanced nations submitted a resolution condemning China for human-rights violations, twice as many countries submitted a resolution supporting China, calling it interference in internal affairs.

Going forward, if CO₂ issues are taken to the UN, China—with numerous supporters—will become even more aggressive.

The naive argument that
“if advanced nations pressure China by pledging to halve CO₂ emissions, China will do likewise”
has absolutely no basis.
China’s current plan is to increase emissions by 10% over the next five years.
This increase alone is roughly the same as Japan’s annual emissions of 1.2 billion tons.
Japan’s coal-fired capacity is about 50 million kW, but every year China builds power plants equivalent to that amount.

In this summit, while advanced nations made self-destructive pledges that damage their own economies, China remains practically unrestricted by CO₂.
Not only that—
China already dominates major industries like solar power and electric vehicles,
and advanced nations are creating with subsidies the very markets that China will completely control.
Controlling these supply chains also gives China geopolitical leverage.

Toward developing countries, China declared it would further advance its Belt and Road Initiative under the pretext of environmental-infrastructure development.
Advanced nations, meanwhile, are withdrawing from thermal-power projects in developing nations because of CO₂ concerns, enabling China to monopolize the market.
As advanced nations reduce oil consumption and the oil industry suffers a severe blow, China will find procurement from oil producers easier.
Furthermore, developing countries deprived of fossil fuels will naturally turn to China.

The extreme CO₂-reduction demands advanced nations imposed on developing countries have sparked fierce backlash.
Even India, which advanced nations most wish to win over, expressed concern in a joint statement with China at a BASIC emerging-countries meeting.

Advanced nations are committing suicide,
and fortune falls into China’s lap.
Over the bizarre new religion called “climate change” that has captured advanced nations,
China laughs loudly.

To be continued.