China has us over a barrel, page-11

It comes down to successive governments selling off our abilities to compet.

Horrible energy sales deals that robbed us of the chance of powering our industries, sell off of state power companies and then the really big kick in the teeth! The signing up to emissions reductions to make sure that we cannot even access our own coal if we (as a nation) wanted to try and kickstart any manufacturing.

We can still sell it cheap to other countries that use antiquated power stations/new robust stations but not us, dimwits in power.