Former Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, who also served as U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, joined The Patriot Perspective to discuss his new book, China’s War on Faith, and delivered a blunt warning about the threat Communist China poses to the United States, religious freedom, and Western civilization.

Brownback, who served as U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom during President Donald Trump’s first term, called the Chinese Communist Party “the most significant adversary we’ve faced in the last century.”

That warning should shape how Americans view one of the greatest policy scams of the modern era: the so-called green transition.

For years, the American people were told that solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles, and battery mandates were necessary to save the planet. Politicians framed green energy as a moral cause, not just an economic program. Anyone who questioned the agenda was accused of denying science, opposing progress, or standing in the way of a cleaner future.

But beneath the slogans, China was building the supply chains.

American taxpayers were forced to subsidize green-energy programs that often strengthened China’s manufacturing power. Washington attacked American oil, gas, pipelines, and drilling while promoting industries dependent on Chinese minerals, Chinese processing, Chinese factories, and Chinese-controlled supply chains.

The green transition did not end foreign dependence. It simply changed who benefited from it.

China understood the game better than America’s political class. Beijing did not need to convince American voters to love communism. It only needed American leaders to accept climate ideology so extreme that the United States would weaken its own energy sector and create massive demand for products China dominates.

Solar energy is one of the clearest examples. China has become the world’s dominant producer of solar panels and the materials needed to build them. Electric vehicles present the same problem. Batteries require minerals and components that China heavily controls through mining, refining, processing, and manufacturing. Wind turbines also rely on rare earth elements and industrial materials tied to Chinese production.

The American taxpayer was told this was an environmental revolution. China saw it as an economic opportunity.

The Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act made this problem worse by pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into green-energy subsidies. These subsidies were promoted as investments in the future, but the practical effect was to increase demand for industries where China holds enormous leverage. 

While American families struggled with inflation, higher utility bills, and rising costs, Washington pushed them to fund a green agenda that often benefited foreign supply chains more than American workers.

Brownback’s warning about China’s war on faith connects directly to this broader threat. The Chinese Communist Party does not merely seek economic strength. It seeks control over people, belief, information, technology, and global institutions. A regime that persecutes Christians, Uyghur Muslims, Falun Gong practitioners, and dissidents should not be trusted to power America’s energy future.

The green scam was never just about climate policy. It became a transfer of wealth, leverage, and industrial power away from the United States and toward Communist China.

America needs clean air, clean water, reliable energy, and real environmental stewardship. But environmental policy should serve American families, American workers, and American security. It should not become an excuse to destroy domestic energy while rewarding China.

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