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China’s Decarbonization Is So Fast Even New Coal Plants Aren’t Stopping It
(foreignpolicy.com)
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this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2025
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If countries are careful to buy solar modules instead of things like inverters and other grid interconnection hardware with more complex electronics, it'll limit Chinese power in a way that you can't limit the ability of an oil or gas supplier to cut you off.
Good advice. I was actually thinking simply about being the center of the global economy and how that typically makes a nation a superpower. Technological espionage is a whole other issue.