Taiwan worsens its vulnerability to a Chinese energy blockade (Jane Rickards – The Strategist)

Anyone would think that Taiwan, faced with a risk of blockade from China, would be doing all it could to ensure self-sufficiency or at least long endurance without supplies. But in energy security, it is going backwards. President Lai Ching-te’s government is increasing Taiwan’s dependence on short-term energy imports that China can easily stop. The administration is persisting with an almost decade-long campaign to shut down the island’s nuclear power stations and wants to increase the share of liquified natural gas (LNG) in its energy mix. Progress on renewable-energy capacity has been slow.

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