made this week by Zhang Jianhua, director of China's National Energy Agency.
More interestingly, Xhang referred to"foreign hostile forces," per the automated translation, that are trying to undermine China's energy transformation and collecting sensitive data to that end, to"distort and defame my country's energy strategic planning, transformation and development, and interfere with the security and stable environment."
If things do turn out that way, this would effectively mean China is clamming up to the West with regard to transition matters. What the impact of such a development would be on what activist politicians call global transition efforts remains to be seen.