{"id":73645,"date":"2026-05-17T08:56:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/the-american-epoch-of-oil-is-collapsing-what-comes-next-could-be-ugly-jonathan-watts\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:56:53","slug":"the-american-epoch-of-oil-is-collapsing-what-comes-next-could-be-ugly-jonathan-watts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/the-american-epoch-of-oil-is-collapsing-what-comes-next-could-be-ugly-jonathan-watts\/","title":{"rendered":"The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan Watts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFarewell,\u201d the flag-waving Chinese children chanted to Donald Trump as he strolled along the red carpet back to Air Force One at the end of his summit with Xi Jinping in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The US leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/15\/trump-xi-summit-energy-purchase-china-iran-war-oil-shock-.html\">claimed<\/a> he was leaving with a cluster of \u201cfantastic\u201d trade deals to sell US oil, jets and soya beans to China. That has not been confirmed by his smiling host, but one thing was crystal clear from the two days of meetings: the global balance of power is shifting, from the declining petrostate in the west to the rising electrostate in the east.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/may\/17\/america-china-energy-oil-renewables\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock \u201cFarewell,\u201d the flag-waving Chinese children chanted to Donald Trump as he strolled along the red carpet back to Air Force One at the end of his summit with Xi Jinping in Beijing. The &#8230; <a title=\"The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan Watts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/the-american-epoch-of-oil-is-collapsing-what-comes-next-could-be-ugly-jonathan-watts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan Watts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}