An economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has said China will dominate the energy sphere if U.S. President Donald Trump does not invest in renewable energy.

Writing on a Substack blog, Paul Krugman, who won the award in 2008 for his work analyzing trade patterns and economic activity, said that the world would be "dominated by solar and wind power" in the future and that "China will dominate that energy future" because the U.S. has not made the same investments.

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The two powers are taking very different stances on energy. In October, China constructed a solar farm complex on the Tibetan Plateau which is seven times the size of Manhattan, as part o

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