China’s climate sincerity is being put to the test
Until it stops burning coal for power, foreign firms will be reluctant to invest more there
TO HEAR CHINA’S Communist Party tell it, the nifty thing about autocracy is that it lets rulers plan for the long term. Apologists for one-party rule hail China’s leaders as enlightened technocrats who think in centuries, while decadent Western democracies struggle to see beyond the next election cycle.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Is China serious about the climate?”
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