Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale — craft rewrite

Voice: Black 101 (craft) Original: Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale

Nothing to see here, we are told—except that noticing CCP-linked activity is liable to be called racist, so better not to notice any of it.

Ross McKitrick points to two essays published this week on a narrower claim: that the climate movement is now a serious national security risk for the United States and Europe. One, in Tablet, is by two authors, one at the Hudson Institute in Washington and one a professor at the Naval Postgraduate Academy in California. They trace links between China and the Western Net Zero movement. The links are partly financial. They work mostly, the essay argues, through influence operations by which the CCP gains exemption from criticism by Western green groups, even as its own growth strategy stays coal-intensive and dependent on slave labor.

The other paper, from Richard Dearlove, former head of MI5, explains how China’s influence operations in the United Kingdom led to deindustrialization and a precarious dependence on China—to the point that the UK could not now reindustrialize or stabilize its electricity grid without seeking assistance from Beijing. Dearlove raises the possibility that a security agency like MI5 saw a threat building and still could not address it, because of a perception that climate science forbids criticizing Net Zero and related measures.

McKitrick’s question follows from that possibility, and it is worth leaving as a question. Have Western intelligence agencies internalized the green Net Zero mindset, and has that kept them from challenging the climate alarmism the CCP has weaponized so effectively? If they now want to start doing so, would they know how—or have the capacity?

The page does not settle those questions. It does say the dependence is already real, the exemption from criticism is the operational gain, and the advice on offer is still not to look.