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How China Pulled So Far Ahead on Industrial Policy (www.nytimes.com)

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But no country has come close to matching the scale and tenacity of China’s support. The proof is in the production: In 2022, Beijing accounted for 85 percent of all clean-energy manufacturing investment in the world, according to the International Energy Agency.

Now the United States, Europe and other wealthy nations are trying frantically to catch up.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's weird. For so much money going into green energy, you'd think you'd be able to at least see the skyline in china. Oh right, by "clean energy manufacturing" they mean electric cars and other e-waste products, not clean energy production.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

They're actually manufacturing (and installing) huge amounts of wind and solar — It's just that they haven't actually done so at a pace sufficient to start displacing coal burning.