‘Remarkable Coincidence’: Canada, West Aiming for Net-Zero by 2050 as Beijing Pursues World Dominance by 2049

News Analysis For some observers, Canada’s and other Western countries’ steps toward net-zero emissions by 2050 and the impacts on their economies and way of life have one main beneficiary—the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—which its leader Xi Jinping has said is aiming for dominance in “national strength and international influence” within the same timeline, 2049. “I think there’s a remarkable coincidence between China having its eyes on 2049, the 100-year anniversary of the CCP takeover, as the date at which they want to solidify their position as the sole global superpower, and the rest of the world having embraced this notion of net-zero by 2050,” Ross McKitrick, an economics professor at the University of Guelph, told The Epoch Times....