Well researched, erudite and educated commentary, Jeffery. Has China purchased silence? I venture to very strongly suggest, that is indeed the case?

And has the coal, gas and oil lobby purchased political, influence here and abroad? Or is some of the advocating for these fuels coming from advancing early dementia, alcoholic brain fog, lunacy or a fistful of fossil fuel dollars? Or, maybe a combination of all the foregoing? You be the judge! If the cap fits, tomato head?

If it quacks like a duck? Paddles like a duck and waddles like a duck? Then maybe we should think, coal and fossil fuels, in general, are not all they're quacked up to be?

Power generation needs to be taken back then reprivatised as employee-owned and operated co-ops only! Then we might see the long-needed emergence of a sanity driven, nuclear power industry, heavily reliant on MSR thorium and or nuclear waste burning MSR technology!? TBC.
Alan B.