Comment Re:But China is the world leader here (Score 1) 8
I'm also confused what is going on here, though I was thinking more about the renewable energy side of it, not the electric car stuff. There must be some loaded language in the declaration?
However, the way China is building up the renewable energy capacity it looks like "Yuugen Jikkou" to me. That's actually a Japanese/Romaji version of a 4-character Chinese/Japanese expression that can't be used on Slashdot anyway. I'm not sure if there is a way to say it in English. "All talk, no action" is kind of the opposite idea (and there's also a 4-character expression for that), but yuugen jikkou is about doing what you said you were going to do. However what I wanted to say is still slightly different... It's more like the Chinese aren't really worrying about what the Europeans are saying about climate action, but they are just acting. The Chinese are building up LOTS of renewable energy capacity and not worrying too much about who says what. Pledges are cheap.
Now how to go for funny? One angle would be the YOB's recent claim there aren't any wind farms in China versus the reality. Not sure how much I trust the google's AI answers these days, but I'm pretty sure that the summary saying China has 40% of world capacity for wind power is in the right ballpark. However if the claim for new capacity around 50% (for 2022) is accurate, then that bodes even more Chinese dominance for the future...