China rose to power with the "Save the Sun" project.
While geopolitical conflicts are brewing around the world, with fuel as a hostage, China's policy remains unwaveringly committed to a strong global transition to clean energy that will make China a future energy leader, as the Iranian war has shown the vulnerability of an economy heavily dependent on fossil fuels.
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According to Lin Boqiang, director of the Energy Economics Research Center at Xiamen University, China's progress in clean energy has not only been positive for China itself, but also for the world as a whole.
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And with the clean energy supply chain now taking over the world's largest market, China has risen to become a leader in solar power, wind power, electric cars and energy storage, resulting in China becoming a key driver of the global transition to green energy.
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Which against Donald Trump's policies on the global climate crisis, including his chosen war in Iran, caused unexpected consequences.
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Trump believes that the global energy infrastructure that relies primarily on fossil fuels today is a highly efficient energy system and a renewable energy source.
And it is not believed that the combustion of oil, coal and natural gas to produce energy, the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions, would be the main contributing factor to the climate crisis, but this transition to clean energy would result in the loss of coal miners and other workers working in the oil, coal and natural gas industries in the United States and elsewhere around the world.
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The Trump administration has therefore withdrawn the United States from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change; and he has cut the Green New Deal program budget, which previous governments had supported for alternative energy development.
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Unfortunately, Trump's policies have instead pushed most of the economic benefits to China. China's alternative energy industry has spawned expansion alongside the artificial intelligence industry, and is likely to take over the world.
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The Iranian war is driving many countries to turn to electric cars, solar power and batteries from China, strengthening China and is constantly eroding U.S. energy leadership.
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China is strengthening its leadership in the global clean energy supply chain and has expanded China's renewable energy cooperation to the southern hemisphere, which is growing rapidly.
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The Iran war has resulted in the United States gaining a short-term advantage in the Cold War in energy exports. U.S. companies are selling record quantities of oil and liquid fuels to countries that are facing shortages after Iran blocked the flow of tankers out of the Strait of Hormuz, a key strategic point for transporting crude oil out of the Middle East.
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But China itself is also seeing a huge increase in green energy export channels, as oil prices, currently at $103 a barrel, are volatile at record levels and fuel shortages occur in Southeast Asia; the longer the war is waged, the more beneficial it is to China.
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That doesn't mean China won't be affected by Trump's battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz, which is one-fifth of the world's oil and natural gas shipping routes; what happened has greatly limited the amount of crude oil shipped to China, resulting in a decline in China's oil reserves; and the Trump administration has also imposed sanctions on small Chinese refineries that process about 90 percent of Iran's total exports of crude oil, even after China came out to interact.
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This conflict is a strategic opportunity for China to increase its exports of clean energy technologies. China's electric cars will replace gasoline-fueled cars. The International Energy Organization predicts that by 2030, electric cars will replace diesel, which will bring gasoline consumption down by more than 5 million barrels per day worldwide.
▶️ world is changing with the renewable energy industry.
Building a space solar power station (The Space Solar Power Station: SSPS) This concept sounds like science fiction, but there are also many countries with ambitions to develop wireless solar power generation systems in space.
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In 1968, Peter Edward Glazer, an American aerospace scientist and engineer, invented the idea of using satellites to install large solar panels, sending solar energy from space through microwave beams down to Earth.
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In 2012, John C.Mankins, a former NASA physicist, proposed an approach called SPS-ALPHA (Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrary Large Phased Array). Later, in 2015, Northrop Grumman, in the United States, sponsored a $17.5 million research for three years to develop the Space Solar Power Initiative.
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In late 2013, a research team led by Professor Duan Baoyan of Xidian University proposed to initiate China's own project, and his team later presented China's technology approach to the "Zhuri" project.
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The "Zhuri" project, which means "chasing the sun" in Chinese, is currently in the experimental stage. This project lays the foundation for a 'wireless charging station' in space, focuses on the exploitation of energy resources in space, and is expected to send "wireless" space-generated electricity through the air to ground equipment, drones, satellites, and even spacecraft traveling to deep space in the future.
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China plans to build a "space power bank" to control typhoons and successfully charge satellites by 2030. If China succeeds, the technology could be an inexhaustible source of clean energy and could turn deadly storms into controlled weather phenomena.
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The space solar power generating station is designed to install large solar panels in orbit, which can operate without interference from the atmosphere or the day-night cycle, like a "large pan" floating in space, continuously trapping solar energy.
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The final roadmap of this project is to build a gigantic, spherical power plant several kilometers wide, orbiting in a fixed Earth orbit, at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers (22,370 miles) above the earth.
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By 2030, the facility will be capable of generating gigawatts (equivalent to 1 billion watts, or 1,000 megawatts) of electricity, which will deliver large quantities of clean energy continuously back to Earth, and the goal by 2050 is to build a commercial solar power plant generating 2 gigawatts of electricity.
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While China has trialled that large solar aperture tower, the U.S. under the Defense Research Program (DARPA) is also testing the technology.
And in November 2025, the Star Catcher Network technology was tested by Star Catcher Industries, a space-based solar power company, successfully sending 1.1 kilowatts of power to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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There is also the UK Space Power Initiative, launched in 2021, with more than 50 British organisations, including leading companies like Airbus Aircraft Manufacturers, Cambridge University, joining the programme and predicting that there may be a demonstration power plant in orbit capable of transmitting gigawatt-scale power from space to Earth by 2035.
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"Keep the sun" projects that may bring China to power. In addition to space solar power stations, China has also invested a lot in other projects, such as
♦️ solar power plant that uses solar power systems to convert solar energy into electricity.
♦️ solar thermal power plant is the collection of sunlight to create high heat temperatures. Solar thermal power plants have large apertures that supply heat to turbines and generators.
♦️ mimicking the sun's energy production process with nuclear fission technology, known as the "Artificial Sun."
The sun in our galaxy produces energy through nuclear fusion reactions within the sun. Hydrogen atoms collide and fuse at very high temperatures, about 15 million degrees Celsius. Under enormous gravity, every second, 600 million tons of hydrogen fuse to form helium. During this process, part of the mass of the hydrogen atom becomes energy.
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China's "artificial sun" project is preparing for its success, in which the first fusion ignition experiment in 2027 by China's Tokamac Reactor (KSTAR), called the "artificial sun," is expected to produce a temperature of 150 million degrees Celsius, about 10 times higher than the sun's core and a magnetic field hundreds of thousands of times larger than Earth's.
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China aims to have the Xinghuo Nuclear Power Plant, the world's first nuclear power plant using both fusion and fission reactions, operational by 2030.
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However, China is not the only country developing this technology because investment in fusion technology has skyrocketed dramatically in recent years. To date, at least 77 fusion-focused startups have received over $15 billion in global investment.
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American start-up companies also announced a time frame in which to develop the tokamac reactor, hoping to become operational in the next decade, with the International Experimental Thermonnuclear Reactor (ITER), a joint tokamac project run by 34 countries in southern France.
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According to the Korean Institute of Fusion Energy, in a 2023-2024 plasma experiment conducted with the KSTAR fusion reactor from South Korea, scientists were able to maintain a plasma ion temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius for up to 48 seconds.
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But China broke records by maintaining a plasma temperature of 120 million Celsius for 101 seconds and 160 million Celsius for 20 seconds, marking a milestone in testing the operation of fusion reactors.
In whatever direction energy development takes, the ruler of energy will always rule the world.
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