> Also, China is not a "poor country" anymore. It's time it started setting money aside for "investment in poor countries", too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B

> Also, China is not a "poor country" anymore. It's time it started setting money aside for "investment in poor countries", too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative (although that also includes some coal plants) > rather than build hundreds more coal power plants in the next five years China's coal plants are a combination of two factors: - Inertia/entrenched interests (i.e. it makes powerful people more wealthy). This is certainly a problem, but it's a hard problem to solve when even Xi Jinping's authority isn't enough to prevent it. - The immense scale of everything China's doing. For example, they're also building more nuclear plants than anyone else https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country they also have the most photovoltaics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics etc.