China is adding new coal capacity roughly equal to America's entire coal capacity by the end of next year, or 180GW. These new installations don't replace old coal plants -- in H1 2025, China decomissioned only about 1GW.

China is also increasing their coal footprint outside China despite their pledge not to[1].

1. China Helped Indonesia Build One of the World’s Biggest, Youngest Coal Fleets. It’s Still Growing, Nicholas Kusnetz, data analysis by Peter Aldhous, Inside Climate News, Oct 19, 2025

Not sure why you are downvoted. Theres bot rings everywhere on the internet that downvote anything that mentions Chinese emissions

And smashing everything in Nuclear, whilst America turns to fossil fuels.

Much as I am against autocracy and oppression, china is doing very well at improving their energy sector.

The US system of decades of environmental review before any energy project can maybe proceed can also be considered a form of oppression.

That's a great Fox News talking point.

Data, please?

Much as I have problems with current administration, Chris Wright is doing an outstanding job working with industry to push forward next-gen nuclear. I have a lot of well-founded hope for huge progress assuming the next Secretary of Energy continues with this and the NRC backs off just a little.

Just because they built it doesn't mean it gets used: https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-why-china-is-still-bu...

Less mixed than the states, more manufacturing and install momentum for renewables and far lower kwh install costs.

So many people told me 10 years ago we shouldn't even bother trying to reduce global emissions because China would burn us all to the ground. So many brain dead takes.

Now I just think about where those takes started and all roads always lead back to the same culprits. Your parents and the hillbillies don’t come up with these takes on their own, they always starts somewhere and benefit the person whispering it in their ear.

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/10/the-piv...

> The EU also hit a landmark in 2025, with more than 50% of its electricity coming from renewables by late summer.

> This has not gone unnoticed by the fossil fuel industry, which is collectively shitting itself. After a couple of centuries of prospecting we know pretty much where all the oil, coal, and gas reserves are buried in the ground. (Another hint about Ukraine: Ukraine is sitting on top of over 670 billion cubic metres of natural gas: to the dictator of a neighbouring resource-extraction economy this must have been quite a draw.) The constant propaganda and astroturfed campaigns advocating against belief in climate change must be viewed in this light: by 2040 at the latest, those coal, gas, and oil land rights must be regarded as stranded assets that can't be monetized, and the land rights probably have a book value measured in trillions of dollars.

China is also the world leader in closing coal power plants too.

Which is meaningless unless they are closing more than they are opening.