Don’t buy the ‘green China’ hype — here’s Beijing’s REAL energy agenda

[Ptarmigan]

Don’t buy the ‘green China’ hype — here’s Beijing’s REAL energy agenda
https://nypost.com/2026/03/11/opinion/dont-buy-green-china-hype-heres-beijings-real-energy-agenda/

Many in the West gaze in awe at China’s apparent dominance in green energy.

 “China is becoming a green superpower,” read a BBC headline last month.

“China’s Green Triumph,” trumpeted The New York Times.

China is indeed churning out solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and batteries that flood global markets — proof, advocates say, of an inevitable green transition.

Yet these supposed marvels are forged amid overwhelming and surging use of fossil fuels, particularly coal.

China's green energy is all smoke and mirrors. They use fossil fuels and in this case, coal. Manufacturing green energy pollutes the environment.

[ADsOutburst]

“China is becoming a green superpower,” read a BBC headline last month.

“China’s Green Triumph,” trumpeted The New York Times.

I don't think it's by accident that western news outlets are praising China with such superlatives. I think Chinese propaganda has gotten in.

[SVPete]

Don’t buy the ‘green China’ hype — here’s Beijing’s REAL energy agenda
https://nypost.com/2026/03/11/opinion/dont-buy-green-china-hype-heres-beijings-real-energy-agenda/

China's green energy is all smoke and mirrors. They use fossil fuels and in this case, coal. Manufacturing green energy pollutes the environment.

Lots of smoke! Chinese people in large cities wear mask many/most days of the year due to crap in the air. China has ample coal resources in NE China (one of the reasons pre-WW2 Japan wanted Manchuria).