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Yes.
From your tone, it sounds like you think that's a bad thing, yet it also seems like you're arguing for more of the same from China.
Give me a break. China has some of the most lax environmental regulations on the planet which is why all the nastiest shit on the planet is produced there. To pretend like they're some bastion of environmental protection is laughable.
Yes, they are subsidizing green technology but this isn't for the benefit of the people, it's for the benefit of the government as they want the rest of the world to be reliant on them alone. About a decade ago they did this same exact thing with photovoltaics and put a ton of solar manufacturers out of business because nobody could compete with a pocketbook the size of the Chinese government's.
In China, abandoned EVs are piling up all over the place. Can you point out what about this is good for the environment when EVs only begin to offset the pollution created from their production after they've been driven around for a few years?
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-china-ev-graveyards/
They're also building 95% of the world's new coal plants: https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-responsible-for-95-of-new-coal-power-construction-in-2023-report-says/
New coal construction has basically stopped everywhere else, including the US.
"Per capita" is also doing some heavy lifting. Nature doesn't care about per capita. It cares about overall output, and China's is enormous. They'd need to produce over four times less co2 on a per capita basis to be equivalent to US output. They're closer to two times.
Continuing to build coal plants in 2024 isn't just "pretending you're better".
I can accept that the US is doing bad things. Can you accept that China is doing bad things?