China’s Threat to Western Energy—and All It Provides

As many Western countries, fearing dangerous global warming, turn increasingly to wind and solar from coal and natural gas to generate electricity, and to electricity from gasoline and diesel for transportation fuel, one nation stands—and plans—to benefit from that big mistake: China. Larry Bell, a polymath (many-subject) scientist at the University of Houston, joins us on  to discuss how the Chinese Communist Party is working to turn China’s dominance as a source for rare earth metals, key components of wind turbines, solar panels, and batteries, into a major geopolitical and even military advantage.