Xi Jinping’s regime has seriously exacerbated China’s deepening energy crisis through the illegal, chronic, and widespread flouting of terms of its World Trade Organization (WTO) membership, observers said this week.
While the current energy shortfall facing China has to do partly with massive flooding that has hampered operations in the country’s coal-producing regions, Beijing has not taken sensible steps to open up the domestic market to imports from the countries best positioned to supply coal that is desperately needed as winter approaches, according to analysts. On the contrary, the Chinese regime has enforced an unofficial ban on imports of coal from Australia, which many view as a reaction to Australia’s call for an inquiry into Beijing’s handling of the COVID-19 outbreak.
