Caspar Hobhouse on the renewable energy industry's 'China problem'

The expansion of solar and wind power will be transformative for our economies and lifestyles, but in buying this technology from China, Europe must be aware that it risks surrendering a lot of its grid and capabilities to a country who then has control over how this works, warned Caspar Hobhouse in The Telegraph. There are two parts to the risk, he explained to The Wire China. "One is cyber security, the other is supply chain security." Europe would not be able to accomplish the energy transition without China, but it comes with the problem of dependency and being locked into Chinese technologies.