IN-DEPTH: Biden’s EV Plan Could Be Key to China’s Global Economic Dominance

IN-DEPTH: Biden’s EV Plan Could Be Key to China’s Global Economic Dominance
President Joe Biden and Chinese communist party leader Xi Jinping. Illustration by The Epoch Times/Getty Images
Nathan Worcester
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The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “strongest-ever” vehicle emissions standards designed to drive mass adoption of electric cars within a decade will increase the United States’ dependence on China, experts warn.

“It benefits the Chinese Communist Party because they control the critical minerals supply chain that is going to be necessary to build out the batteries for those electric vehicles,” said Mandy Gunasekara, director of the Center for Energy and Conservation at the Independent Women’s Forum, a conservative think tank, in an April 17 interview with The Epoch Times.

Nathan Worcester
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Nathan Worcester is an award-winning journalist for The Epoch Times based in Washington, D.C. He frequently covers Capitol Hill, elections, and the ideas that shape our times. He has also written about energy and the environment. Nathan can be reached at [email protected]
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