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China is the world's factory and simultaneously responsible for alleviating poverty for 1.5 billion people and unlike the US it doesn’t have the capital and resource stock to covert and expand 100% of it's economy to renewables while also growing it's economy, not when it's facing US aggression and European uncooperativeness in green tech research/transfers
Damn straight they’re building coal plants, people need electricity and despite advances in solar, wind, and Hydro there's still a hard tech cap on scalability, a problem that western nations have tried to worsen thru sanctions, international research bans and copyright protectionism
Unlike western nations China isn't polluting to make a quick buck, the state’s attitude towards climate change is one of the most progressive in the world, it pollutes because it has to, it's embedded in the global capitalist economy and pretending it can turn itself into solarpunk utopia overnight is unreasonable