Because too much of it is so effing stewpid. Lies lies and more lies.
Say you live on Elm St. Know the neighbors pretty well, just normal people, not saints not devils. Borrow a cup of sugar now and then, their kid mows your lawn. But every time you stop at the local coffee shop a bunch of ignorant assholes who have never been anywhere
near your neighborhood are telling dishonest stories about how the neighor to your left is a slut and fucks dogs, the neighbor to your right kills teenagers and buries them under the house, the neighbor across the street sells smack to the local high school students.
It's all lies and it's all crap and you know better. What do you do, just sit there and nod your head yes ?
Your source is SHIT. Even Dezan-Shira, who are western business consultants and about 170* off my own viewpoint, have a page reading them out. They and Epoch Time and Washington Post and NY Times stink. Lying pieces of garbage. The
best of them will write three sensible paragraphs, then add some fuckwit "narrative" which runs 180* counter to the facts they just printed.
It's nothing but hate-mongering propaganda. "Why" is a question left up to the reader.
I don't "defend China's energy policy at all costs", I don't know what it is, And NEITHER DO ANY OF THESE FUCKWITS, AND NEITHER DO YOU.
Beijing does not work like Worshington. Nobody except the people involved know what is actually going on. When a bunch of airhead dickwads in New York say stuff, it's all
crap. They have absolutely no way to know what is going on. None. The particular dickwads you pointed to do not even have anyone in China to talk to. They have to steal their "briefings" from people who are there. Even those very business-oriented westerners at Dezan-Shira despise your source.
(Dezan-Shira have never been my favorites. They charge for what you can do yourself, and if faced with a difficult problem they run away. But they are probably a help to beginners, and they don't lie. They are too much money uber alles for me, but not liars.)
About the "issue",
I don't say there is no "issue". People we know in Jinan, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Heilongjiang say "there is no issue." A temporary difficulty ? Sure. But "issue" ? Invasion by Japan is an "issue". The massive floods some years ago were an issue. Running low on high-grade coal is not an issue. If necessary they will just burn the bad stuff again. Obviously they are trying not to do that. Good for them.
Truth.
I am sick to death of this endless stream of made-up disasters. Like Alan Greenspan, it doesnt seem to matter that every single prediction by these people is
wrong. No matter what, they can keep coming up with new delusions and people will buy them because they want to.
Well, they're all shit.
Why ? Is it your problem ? Per capita, the US is what, five times worse ? And what is the US doing about it, other than spreading ridiculous nonsense about "global warming is a myth" ? Do I need to point out that the current electricity situation in dongbei is the result of working for cleaner air and less CO2 ? If you feel impelled to criticize, how about starting somewhere closer to home ?
"Some in the west" apparently need to drop their output in the toilet rather than in the press. The ships are parked off the coast of California, not Ningbo. Supply chain issues are
in the US, not in China. Almost two years ago I shipped several hundred N95 masks to a friend in the US. They got to the US in five days. They got to
her three months later. WTF ? China's fault, I suppose ?
Everything I come across is like this. Dig into these stories and it turns out totally different than the surface reporting. Chips for cars ... why are they short ?
Because they cancelled their orders, and the electronics biz took up the slack. That's not at ALL what you read in the mainstream press.
You triggered me by pointing to a bunch of nitwits with an axe who blame all of the US problems on someone else. You want something from China ? Tell me what. We'll get it out in a week, then ten days later it will sit off the coast of California for three months while the fucking idiots in LA and Chicago and Baltimore don't unload it, can't ship it, can't deliver it, probably can't even
find it. They're too busy crying over masks or getting shots and having their DNA rearranged, or some other weirdass delusion.
Don't need to worry about China, they will be fine. Spend your worries closer to home - the US has fucked this thing up beyond belief all by its widdow sewf and nobody seems to be able to figure out how to fix even the simplest little things. You've got governments from top to bottom who couldn't compete with a flea circus for brains, god knows how this will end. Looks like 476 A.D. to me.
Thirty years ago would not have believed this.
Maroons. Unbelievable. Read about Marjorie Taylor Greene (or the Supreme Court), that'll give you enough to worry about instead for the next twenty years