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> China builds solar panels using electricity produced by burning coal.

Source? From everything I can find, at this moment China has around half of the generation coming from clean/renewable sources.

Per-country yes China is #1, but per-capita, oil producing countries are most of the top 10 (with island nation Palau #1, inefficient transport skewed by low population).

Surely, at some point in the near future, they'll be producing solar panels using solar energy?

Well, in some 2 years their solar production trend will reach their electricity consumption trend...

So either that or they'll deploy electric-arc sculptures all over the country for the population to see, listen, and smell.

For goods we consume, though.

China is also one of the top two countries by population. The other is India, at almost exactly the same number of 1.4bn.