US President Donald Trump said he had given his administration permission to start producing energy using coal as fuel.
“After years of being held captive by environmental extremists, lunatics, radicals and thugs, while other countries, especially China, have been allowed to gain a huge economic advantage over us by opening hundreds of coal-fired power plants, I am authorizing my administration to immediately start producing energy from beautiful, clean coal“, he wrote on Truth Social.
US President Donald Trump on Monday increased tariffs on all goods imported from China to 20% from the previous 10%. The measure was a punishment for, as Trump said, Beijing’s failure to stop the supply of chemicals used to produce the deadly opioid fentanyl in USA.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry official said the US was using "something that has made great progress... as an excuse to impose tariffs on China, which is not the way to solve problems" and added that the US was "returning kindness with hostility" and its actions were "meaningless", BTA reported.