Something’s amiss in the war to save the world. The climate caravan is running over its own feet. Ideology is beating up on success. Bad is good, good is bad. The mission has gone seriously haywire.

The United States and the European Union are very upset that China is doing what the U.S. and EU have been loudly advocating for eons, and doing it successfully. The East Asian nation is building electric cars, selling tons of them, undercutting reliance on fossil fuels and reducing dangerous emissions. The conclusion in Washington and Brussels is unequivocal: China must be stopped.