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China has a significant investment in solar and wind power - is that just to convince us it's a good idea to buy it?

if solar and wind is subsidized by europe or usa, selling solar and wind to them is great. taxpayer money goes east, everybody is happy, meanwhile china is constructing more coal plants than all the other countries combined https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/number-of...

Yes the share of electricity produced by coal plants is going down: https://ember-energy.org/countries-and-regions/china/

So it appears they’re building more renewable capacity than coal capacity.

Your graph shows only increasing emissions from coal.

by the way also it shows increasing CO2 emissions from solar and wind. it doesn't make any sense

Look at the graph labelled “ Share of generation (%)” to see the (relative) decline of coal.

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