China is main beneficiary of West's futile energy transition push

Brenda Shaffer is a research faculty member with the Energy Academic Group of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. She is also senior adviser on energy at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a senior fellow at the Global Energy Center of the Atlantic Council.

U.S. President Joe Biden, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the heads of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Economic Forum, and almost all mainstream media agree that the world is in the midst of an energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.