Daniel Ackerman

Whenever the economy slows down, young African Americans, 18 to 24 years of age, no more than 10 years of experience, no more than a high school degree, their employment prospects start to wane.

China's energy buildup is... Staggering.

Jason Bordoff is director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia.

They've built more power generation capacity in the last four years than the entire U.S.

grid combined.

In just the last year alone, China added the equivalent of 40% of the electrical capacity of the entire United States.

Leslie Abrahams is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

One cluster of solar farms in western China, the Talaton Solar Park, covers 162 square miles of desert.

That is seven times the size of Manhattan.

One solar park.

And China's lead is not just in renewables.

If energy is a race, the U.S.

is losing it.

Kyle Chan is a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

The U.S.

struggles to build out new energy.

And it's not a problem that the U.S.

has really dealt with before, given that there wasn't really that much growth in energy demand until now with AI.

Whereas China has been adding energy for many years to power its manufacturing base, in the U.S., decades of demand stagnation and underinvestment have made it hard to adjust.

Columbia's Jason Bordoff.