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China is building more new coal power output than currently exists in the entire EU combined. There's no indication they plan to stop there and that doesn't count the coal plants their companies are building in the rest of Asia.

Adding renewables or nuclear while you massively increase your world-leading emissions output, won't actually improve anything.

"China Is Still Building an Insane Number of New Coal Plants"

https://www.wired.com/story/china-is-still-building-an-insan...

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/716347646/why-is-china-placin...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/years-afte...




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