The costs in the US are completely fucked. Partially because of tariffs on imports, partially because of bullshit regulations that protect the large existing players, and partially because American workers are just, frankly, less efficient.
Who the fuck cares what English speakers use? It's like maintaining colonial names in the US and Canada because "we don't want to hurt the feeling of the colonizers!"
Developing nations need electricity and primary energy growth. They need it to pull people out of poverty, and guarantee basic human needs like food, water, shelter as well as basic human desires like education, employment, and transportation. Western countries should be using their immense economic power to make renewable sources of energy the more cost-effective solution. They're not.
China is on track to hit peak oil (this year) and peak coal (next year). This is due to their EV adoption rate (~40% and growing fast) and their solar panel installation rate (this year, more than the entire sum of all US solar panels). China dominates the supply chain: they make up more than half of all battery exports and more than 80% of all solar panels exports worldwide. In less than a decade, China has drove down the cost of EVs to parity with ICE vehicles ($10000/car) and drove down the cost of solar to be less than that of traditional fossil fuels.
The West could have done the same. Instead, we kept jacking off our O&G producers and giving them billions of dollars in subsidies while solidifying the advantage of established car and solar companies rather than driving innovation from competition.
You're not looking at the other comments before replying. Understandably, since it's a long thread, but I'd recommend you start reading from the first comment
Good. China's policy on drugs (and indeed Singapore's, as well as many other countries in the East Asian sphere of influence) is a historical artifact of the Opium Wars.
I mean, Canadian colonizers today use the (romanized) First Nations names of Squamish, Tsawwassen, and Chilliwack.
Moving names closer to their origins is a good thing.