It does matter, no renewables are compensating coal plants especially in a growing economy like China. China's results are already pretty poor, they have the s

It does matter, no renewables are compensating coal plants especially in a growing economy like China. China's results are already pretty poor, they have the same amount of emissions per capita as France when excluding exports but pretty far from the development level though. Usually developing country emit less because it's easier when you have a large portion of the population which isn't very rich. What's explaining the bad results of China is the unsustainable middle class powered by those coal plants.