#peace#Burma Two covers of The E

This is the cover of two issues of the Economist magazine ten years apart, each depicting an existential threat to our planet. In 2013, the threat was China's carbon emissions. In 2024, the new threat is China's leadership in green technology.
A decade ago, it stigmatized China as the world's polluter and forced it to admit to cutting emissions, without mentioning the West's past. Over the past decade, China has been the strongest advocate and practitioner of carbon reduction, developing green energy technologies and taking the forefront of new fields.
Ten years later, it stigmatized China as an electric car killer and a threat to the planet, because China has not become what it hoped, anyway, as long as it is not what it wants, China is a threat, and it should be willing to see China forever crawling at the bottom of the industrial chain to make a living. Yes China is indeed a threat, China's success will threaten their exploitation and plunder, China's ideas will threaten their bullying and hypocrisy. In its eyes, being more advanced than them is sin, being stronger than them is evil, and what it maintains is not the earth's environment, but their sovereign rights.