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- Jimmy Lai’s son says UK government did not do enough to help him on China visitwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Built to peak: Coal power expansion runs out of room in China – Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Airenergyandcleanair.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to globalnews@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
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- Comment on China’s Four-Year Energy Spree Has Eclipsed Entire US Power Grid 1 week ago:
China’s ‘four-year spree energy spree’ has not only eclipsed the entire US power grid. It is even worse: China’s solar industry’s capacity reached levels capable of satisfying global demand roughly twice over, according to figures from late last year.
And this is only solar. China is also the world’s largest producer, importer, and consumer of coal. The country burns 56% of the world’s coal, has tripled consumption since 2000 and is building coal plants at the fastest pace in the last decade.
China not only increases its coal dependence but is also building solar panels it cannot use, in part because the Chinese grid is still unfit. Issues such as curtailment, where solar energy production has to shut down due to grid limitations, have become an obstacle China hasn’t yet solved.
As Morningstar reports,
China’s solar-capacity factor … stood at just 14.7% in 2023, compared with 23.3% in the United States.
And it’s getting worse. In 2024, solar capacity grew by 45% while generation increased only 28%. Do the math and the implied capacity factor drops toward 11% or 12%. IEEFA data shows utilization hours collapsed from 1,030 in 2020 to just 473 in 2024.
That means that roughly five-sixths of the time China’s solar installations sit there doing nothing. They are the world’s most expensive decorations - a clean-energy Potemkin village stretched across the provinces.
China is building solar capacity faster than it can use it, faster than its grid can absorb, faster than any economic logic would justify. The result is panels producing power that nobody can buy, connected to a grid that cannot handle the load.
But the Chinese government has been up to sustain investment growth at any cost to compensate for the decline of the country’s troubled property sector and stalling domestic consumption. So China built new factories not just in solar, but also in electric cars and batteries.
Similar as in these other industries, the policy led to fierce price wars in Chinese solar markets and to an overcapacity that is now desperately seeking its solution in export markets. But despite huge state subsidies, more than 40 Chinese solar manufacturers have already gone bankrupt or halted production since 2024. One-third of China’s 121 listed solar producers are operating at a loss with China’s top four solar manufacturers - Longi Green Energy, Jinki Solar, JA Sola, and Trina Solar - collectively lost $1.5 billion in the first half of 2025 alone.
Chinese solar companies have already responded by laying off a third of their workers, according to a Reuters analysis of company filings.
Yet the headline tells you of a thriving Chinese renewable energy industry.
I could continue this for a long time, but I don’t want to overdo it. The linked reports make an excellent read, though, and you’ll find more across the web.
Some say that exceptionally low prices help accelerate solar adoption to save the climate, but this is short-term thinking imo. In the long-term it is much better if we develop diverse suppliers working across different supply chains to reach a more stable, fast, and - above all - just energy transition.
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I am not ‘dense’ but this is about the Russia connection. This is unrelated to any other issues.
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- Comment on Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Ran Kremlin’s Largest Honeytrap and Blackmail Operation 1 week ago:
Whataboutism, the rhetorical practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counteraccusation, by asking a different but related question, or by raising a different issue altogether […] - Source
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- Comment on China's factory activity grows at fastest pace since October, private survey shows, beating official reading 1 week ago:
This is a questionable interpretation and a highly misleading title and content.
TL;DR: China’s export-focused economy is doing relatively well, all others fall further behind. It’s another proof for Beijing’s mercantilism and its increasing dependency on foreign markets.
China’s official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index came fell back in contraction to 49.3. The fact that it diverges from the (private) RatingDog PMI provided by S&P (and cited in linked the article), suggests that external activity continues to be much stronger than domestic demand.
In other words: China’s economy is still highly reliant on exports, it does carries over its troubles into 2026 (this interpretation is in line with several analysts, see, for example, the report by ING Bank).
Unlike China’s official PMI, the private RatingDog PMI has a sample size focused on private and particularly export-oriented companies. We have seen that the gap between the two PMIs has been growing especially in the second half of 2025, and this gap is now even larger.
We also see that China’s official NBS Non-Manufacturing PMI fell back into contraction to 49.4 in January 2026 from 50.2 in December 2025, reflecting cautious consumer spending and and persistent stress in the property sector.
The consequences of China growth model are felt already by ordinary people, as one analysis reads:
[China’s] The country’s growth has become increasingly expensive to maintain, and its dividends are reaching ordinary households with diminishing force.
The divergence between headline growth and household reality is now impossible to ignore. While GDP expanded by 5 percent in 2025, median per capita disposable income – a more representative measure of what typical families actually earn – rose by only 4.4 percent, slowing from the 5.1 percent gain in the previous year. Urban residents fared even worse, with median income growth of just 3.7 percent – worse than the 4.6 percent growth in 2024. The slowdown may seem modest in percentage terms, but it signals something profound: the transmission mechanism that once converted aggregate growth into broadly shared prosperity is weakening. – (Archived)
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 1 week ago:
Lemmygrad. ml is explicitly ML.
Exploring Left-Wing Extremism on the Decentralized Web: An Analysis of Lemmygrad. ml
… findings reveal a substantial increase in user activity and toxicity levels following the migration of these subreddits to Lemmygrad. ml. We also identify posts that support authoritarian regimes, endorse the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and feature anti-Zionist and antisemitic content … Moreover, their support can extend beyond backing these authoritarian regimes, even cheering on their violent actions, as evidenced by their posts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine …
The whole study makes a good read.
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 1 week ago:
never anything that paints China (let alone its government) in the slightest positive light
Feel free to change that. Just use quite sensible and well-sourced articles.
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- UK: Starmer would be ‘pathetic’ not to raise Jimmy Lai case in China, says Lord Pattenwww.independent.co.uk ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
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- Chinese Police in the Western Balkans: Beijing has stepped up surveillance of its nationals through joint patrols and police stations based abroadchinaobservers.eu ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to globalnews@lemmy.zip | 0 comments