They're also building plenty of coal plants, too: https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/china-permits-two-new-coal-power-plants-per-week-in-2022/#:~:text=Co

They're also building plenty of coal plants, too: https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/china-permits-two-new-coal-power-plants-per-week-in-2022/#:~:text=Coal%20power%20plant%20permitting%2C%20construction,rest%20of%20the%20world%20combined https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/china-permits-two-.... The argument of "being left behind" is flimsy as it's more "China is catching up" as they provide more power to their numerous rural regions. I would say the US generally has "enough" power (well enough is never enough) so that a trickle of expansion is fine. China needs to and is building en masse, it's just incredibly bad that so many of their new watts will be coal.