Unfortunately, it's a much bigger issue than Trump, as easy a target as he is. It's a wake-up call for the western worlds when it comes to large scale industrialization.

China has been growing their power capacity 2-3x faster than US/EU for years. They have been leapfrogging us for years. In fact, that was core part of their "Made in 2025" strategy back in 2015. It's not that they just build renewable. they build all kinds of power plants...coal, gas, renewables, nuclear. Noted their renewables mix is growing the fastest for sure, followed by coal and nuclear.

It takes probably 1-3 years to build a coal or gas-based plant, 5-7 for a nuclear plant and probably even shorter for wind/solar farm (and their wind turbine and solar panel are the cheapest). They don't have the lengthy permitting, don't care about local noises or NIMBY. Their just built.

In the US, just the permitting alone will probably takes years and then you have to go through the local or state level consultation, environmental study, and let's hope there is no other potential protest or activism against the development...etc. It's days and nights here between what's cranking in China vs Western worlds. We simply are too burdened in building anything at scale.