Emily Cunningham

"The most interesting aspect of this shift to a new energy source is that it's led by China. So, it's clearly another pillar in the rise of China to greater global power." 21/

"It's very notable then whilst the US has been going backwards under its current President, China has been moving forwards and has been implementing both leading these technologies but also they have a number of very clever policies." 22/

"For example, the Belt and Road is a way of expanding Chinese path through land-based system." 23/

"The Belt and Road is a series of infrastructure, transport, and energy initiatives whereby Chinese capital and Chinese expertise is going to a series of countries in order to expand their infrastructure links." 24/

More context on the Belt and Road Initiative from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative … 25/

"Sea power has been intrinsic to the dominance of the US in order to protect fossil fuel transport. Now, if it's electricity which will be the dominant source of links and transmission of energy between countries, it will be land power." 26/

"It's been quite impressive how China is using the Belt and Road to increase its land power to its neighbors." 27/

"One error that's very, very often made is people will say, 'Well, we're a very long way from renewables being 100% of all energy, therefore when it's 100%, wake me up.' Well, of course, that's not how the world works. The world works on marginal change, basically." 28/