AT Oil CEO meetup: Trump Claims China Doesn't Have Any Windmills - But It Has the Most In the Worl

[riversedge]

Trump Claims China Doesn’t Have Any Windmills – But It Has the Most In the World

Willa Pope Robbins Fri, January 9, 2026 at 6:49 PM CST

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-claims-china-doesn-t-004925840.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABFNMYmI71IZdHLU9q-QUZOJs_qXwYH7nzZdSjUuOq24RuIg64AB2lcl5bADpuDSAh_6mei3maxForicvDZbqeSFw3w7Xdx2sVJ18PGVJQDNEYfL8jaaehb2pM7qz0sBaQ9envZ-B7AGGtuZrm1MdTCW_lFPGn7l1w-Wvn1kpPT2


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The president correctly named China as the leader in the global wind turbine manufacturers’ market. The country accounted for 65% of global wind capacity in 2023 and 74% of all large-scale solar and wind under construction in the first half of 2025.

Trump then moved to making the broader claim that China does not use any wind power inside the country, telling the press that Chinese windmills are made exclusively to be sold to “suckers like Europe.”

“All you have to do is say to China ‘How many windmill areas do you have in China?’ So far they are not able to find any,” said Trump. “They use coal and they use oil and gas and some nuclear, not much. But they don’t have windmills. They make them and sell them to suckers like Europe and suckers like the United States before.”

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China uses more wind power than almost every other nation combined. The country had an operating wind farm capacity of about 444,000 megawatts as of February 2025. That’s about 44% of the global total– nearly triple the capacity of the U.S. That number increased to almost 48% in 2024, as the installation of wind turbines in all countries excluding China dropped by 18%............................

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Making up his own facts again.