Don't present China as a green champion. China's total coal use increased, China's coal use for electricity production has decreased. https://www.carbonbrief.o

Don't present China as a green champion. China's total coal use increased, China's coal use for electricity production has decreased. https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coal-power-drops-in-china-and-india-for-first-time-in-52-years-after-clean-energy-records/ https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coal-power-drops-in-chi... Coal has many uses in China in comparison with US https://www.iea.org/countries/china/coal https://www.iea.org/countries/china/coal https://www.iea.org/countries/united-states/coal https://www.iea.org/countries/united-states/coal For example China has strongly expanded in making liquid fuels from coal. "China consumes about 380 million metric tons of coal as a feedstock for chemical and liquid fuel production, representing about 8% of the country’s total coal consumption of 4,939 million metric tons." The amount of coal that China uses only as a feedstock for chemical and liquid fuel production is bigger than total coal consumption in Europe or total coal consumption in US. https://thecoalhub.com/china-consumes-almost-400-mt-of-coal-to-produce-liquid-fuels.html https://thecoalhub.com/china-consumes-almost-400-mt-of-coal-... https://asiatimes.com/2025/07/chinas-climate-gambit-bet-on-coal-while-winning-the-green-race/ https://asiatimes.com/2025/07/chinas-climate-gambit-bet-on-c...