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The Oil Surplus Nobody Is Modeling

Global oil demand enters permanent structural surplus by 2028–2029. Five demand-destruction forces the consensus underestimates — and why a Hormuz conflict accelerates the timeline, not reverses it.

April 2026 · 18 min read
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If China Leads in Solar, Why Is It Building More Coal?

Three answers to the coal question. The third one — coal-to-olefins — is the thesis nobody in Western energy markets has priced.

March 2026
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Reading Words: What the 15th Five-Year Plan Actually Says

The FYP as deployment order, not speculative bet. Why TFP is China's new organizational scorecard, and what RMB internationalization actually means.

March 2026
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The IEA Error: Why Every China Forecast Is Wrong in the Same Direction

China export consensus misses 2024–2026. The same structural misforecast the IEA made on solar, applied to trade surplus.

March 2026

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Independent research on China's energy transition, industrial strategy, and the emerging Electrostate thesis. The method is simple: take Chinese stated policy targets and publicly available plans at face value, make timestamped and falsifiable predictions, and grade them publicly over time. 实事求是 — seek truth from facts.