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It’s Not Just America Trying to Halt Clean Energy
Renewables might be cheaper, but China is still setting the rules in fossil generators’ favor.
A test for the energy transition in China.
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It’s not just America and Europe that fear the competitive threat from Chinese clean technology. China itself is scared.
Wind and solar developers in the country installed more than 60% of the world’s renewables last year, upsetting a market where coal has traditionally dominated.