they look to see how the us is flouting international rules and they think, well, were just going to have to play the same game. do you fight fire with fire or do you have the moral high ground? when you have domestic pressures at home such as unemployment and poverty, then sometimes it is easier politically to just join the subsidy game and that is not the most efficient use of resources or the most effective way to mitigate the planets crisis. we are talking about three big blocs: china, the eu and us. i wonder, after brexit, where does this leave the uk? the uk has been trying to have a sort of green industrial under brexit. the problem is the uk is equally conditioned by the international rules—based system and so we already have the eu actually bring in the uk consultations