China is now the good guy in climate change

China draws flak in the West for seemingly everything it does. However, it’s the end of the year and we shouldn’t be so down on China, at least not all the time. So let me draw attention to a major development in the country that’s making the world a better place: clean energy. That is a major “China shock” if ever there was one, but no one is putting it that way. Critics like to cite the stats that China burns as much coal as the rest of the world combined. That is true, but the country burns...