Xi Jinping would have loved to hear Albanese doubling down on climate plans that would just make electricity so expensive that industry will move to China instead

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should finally see the trap Xi has laid for the West to help his communist dictatorship replace democratic US as the great superpower.

Anthony Albanese should say just three words to Chinese dictator Xi Jinping when they meet in Brazil this week.

“Not one cent.”

The next thing our Prime Minister should do – should have done already – is tell his wild-eyed Energy Minister, Chris Bowen, to repeat that to the UN climate conference he’s jetted off to in Azerbaijan.

Albanese and Bowen should finally see the trap Xi has laid for the West to help his communist dictatorship replace democratic US as the great superpower.

Anthony Albanese will meet Xi Jinping in Brazil this week. Picture: AAP

Take this climate conference, where China has just demanded developed countries like Australia give underdeveloped countries $1.8 trillion a year in grants and cheap loans to supposedly tackle global warming.

China even had 133 other poorer countries in what’s confusingly called the “Group of 77” co-sign this demand.

Let me scare you even more: one of the co-chairs of the UN group negotiating just how much we’ll pay is ... Bowen, our climate zealot.

Here’s what China’s $1.8 trillion demand would mean to Australia, if the developed West, including Japan, divided the bill pro rata.

Every man, woman and child would have to hand about $1500 every year to China and its “G77” cosignatories, including fascist Iran, mass-murdering Syria, Hamas-backing Qatar, Taliban-run Afghanistan, North Korea, Myanmar, Venezuela and the oil-rich United Arab Emirates.

Yet Bowen responded not with a hard “no” but a weak “let’s think about it”.

China has just demanded developed countries like Australia give underdeveloped countries $1.8 trillion a year in grants and cheap loans. Picture: AFP

Here are his exact words: “The reported position isn’t our position, but we won’t be pre-empting negotiations that are taking place.”

Actually, here are four more words Albanese could say to Xi: “This is a scam.”

That’s the word Donald Trump used – scam! – in promising to take America out of the UN’s Paris Agreement on cutting emissions once he’s sworn in as president, meaning the US, at least, won’t be party to this con.

But at the APEC meeting in Peru last week, Albanese was still on board, still babbling how he’s going to destroy our reliable coal-fired electricity system by “making the move to more solar, wind and green hydrogen”.

Even green hydrogen? Which Woodside, Origin Energy, Andrew Forrest and now Kansai Electric’s Australian arm have all walked back from this year, admitting it’s not economic?

How Xi would have loved to hear Albanese doubling down on climate plans that would just make electricity so expensive that industry will move to China instead, which under the Paris Agreement is allowed to massively increase its own emissions.

Albanese is going to destroy our reliable coal-fired electricity system by ‘making the move to more solar, wind and green hydrogen’. Picture: AFP

That’s China’s plan. Increase its emissions until it’s much richer, and the West poorer.

It’s working already. Germany banned not just coal power but nuclear, causing so much economic havoc that its iconic Volkswagen car manufacturer says it’s considering closing three factories, unable to compete with mainly Chinese imports.

Its finance minister has now been sacked for warning Germany is losing its industry and must back off its global warming targets.

How can our own government be so blind?

No wonder the Chinese dictatorship’s official outlet, China Daily, last week praised Albanese as the kind of Western leader it likes – one distancing himself from the US “and repositioning themselves on the global stage relative to the US”.

In short, sucking up to China.

Sure: the West won’t hand over that $1.8 trillion, but China doesn’t need it to. It’s enough for China to be seen to stick it to the capitalist West. That should get it plenty of African friends.

What makes China’s scam even more galling is that our governments already waste tens of billions of dollars to cut Australia’s puny emissions instead of using that fortune to make ourselves an industrial and military force.

China’s not that stupid. Albanese last week should have noticed Xi skipped APEC sessions to open a massive new deepwater port in Peru, in Chancay, that China funded most of and will control.

This does not just let South American countries bypass US ports in getting goods to China. It also gives China yet another port for its navy, to go with ones it has built, is building or is gaining access to in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Equatorial Guinea, Djibouti, Cameroon, Cambodia, Vanuatu, Mozambique and Mauritania.

Get the picture? Does Albanese?

China is building an alliance of pro-China dictatorships – Russia, Iran and North Korea – to challenge the West, supported by G77 grifters.

Yet we have a prime minister praised by China for cooling on the US while banning our most reliable energy source and funding China’s mates in a war on the climate.

This won’t end well.

Originally published as Xi Jinping would have loved to hear Albanese doubling down on climate plans that would just make electricity so expensive that industry will move to China instead