China's current dependence on long petroleum supply chains from Russia and the Persian Gulf to fuel their current fleet of cars and trucks is a weakness, and Be

China's current dependence on long petroleum supply chains from Russia and the Persian Gulf to fuel their current fleet of cars and trucks is a weakness, and Beijing is quite rationally responding to that weakness in national security by investing heavily in EVs. To power all those EVs, China's adding coal-fired electrical generation capacity at a very rapid pace. (China has plenty of coal.)