I took it out of the meme to avoid seeming cluttered, but I must mention that they don’t just want USian corporations to have the monopoly. Renewables are at odds with capitalism and capitalists know oil is more lucrative than less labor intensive alternatives. Ted Reese makes a strong explanation for the lack of adoption of hemp and solar in SoE.

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    The fact is, their power demands are rising, so they invest in and build coal power plants as much as no other country.

    Of course, that’s unfortunate. I’m critical of them and they could be doing better. However, have you considered why? It’s western factories that go to China and produce our goods. The West’s carbon footprint is effectively laundered through China. Also, speak for yourself. Genocide Joe over here keeps approving oil pipelines. Yet you set your malaise on China. They and the EU also keep increasing their military budgets sharply, and the US MIC has long been the greatest contributor) to the climate crisis.

    I’m pretty sure it’s just for publicity

    I love that your source here is nothing more than intuition.

    So please remove this china-greenwashing post,

    Lol, you’ve given me no reason to. While the West fails to meet it’s pitiful Paris Climate Accords goals, China has more ambitious goals and is already far ahead of them.

    It’s just a horrible place

    Again, no evidence, absurd reasoning. If China’s such a bad place why have they eliminated poverty and why are chinese living longer, healthier, and happier than USians? Why are at least 95% of Chinese happy with their government?

    Edit: I somehow forgot to mention: how can China’s green energy be just for show when the US has recently bemoaned their overcapacity?

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      No, you don’t understand. Decades of imperialist propaganda has taught me that China is BAD, and everything that they do is BAD, so how can they possibly do something GOOD? Checkmate