Världen genomgår för tillfället den värsta energikrisen sedan 1970-talet. Frivärlds senior fellow Anders Åslund skriver för Atlantic Council om vikten av att USA och EU reagerar.
The current energy impasse started in China. After Australia demanded that China carry out a proper investigation into the origins of Covid-19 in Wuhan, China prohibited imports of coal from Australia. Environmentally, it might have been a good idea to transit from coal to natural gas, but as China, as well as Japan and South Korea imported plenty of liquefied natural gas (LNG), the market price multiplied.