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On a statistical basis, China’s newly-built wind and solar capacity figures are impressive, but their performance consistently lags that of renewable assets in other countries. China gets low utilization rates for its wind and solar because it has built a lot of capacity in parts of the country that have average-at-best natural wind and solar resources. Furthermore, much of the solar is on rooftops, which also see lower capacity factors than ground-mounted solar.
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Lots of discussions on Chinese EV exports. So a bit of context.
1 Majority of car exports from China are not EVs.
2 Biggest all electric car exporter from China: Tesla (half of Tesla global production is made in Shanghai).
3 Western companies are selling cars in China: German (17% market share), US (7,5%), Japanese (12%) and Korean, and producing in & exporting out of China.
4 BYD largest exports: Brazil, Mexico, Uzbekistan, UAE, Israel & Thailand.
“ #China is not buying Africa, it is building #Africa ” is the view from Beijing. How is this landing with local audiences? There have been hints of a cooling down of Sino-African friendship. For this episode, #TheGlobalJigsaw travels to the Kenyan capital Nairobi to get a sense of #Chinese influence on the ground, and understand why #Beijing has chosen it as a hub for its media operation in Africa. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hx9h3z
@Alon@adnan Definitely, remember the tariffs against Japanese automakers in the 1980s?
But for all the issues US, #Japan, #Europe, etc, face w/ trade b/t each other, #China is completely different. At the very least, I'd appreciate if those criticizing #Biden's tariff would at least recognize that.
Also lessons have been learned - American solar is growing. Europe, which failed to protect against cheap Chinese #solar imports/dumping (or #forcedlabor) saw its solar industry decimated.
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Zhao Lianhai is a Chinese dissident and former food safety worker who became an activist for parents of children harmed during the 2008 Chinese milk scandal.
The police and/or public security bureau harassed him, his wife, his mother, his siblings, and volunteer students. The government also broke up meetings and a press conference.
In 2010 he was sentenced to two and half years imprisonment for 'disturbing social order'.
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A cloud waterfall was caught on video in the Chinese municipality of Chongqing
A cloud waterfall is a rare and amazing phenomenon. For this natural phenomenon to occur, extremely stable air conditions are required, followed by heavy rainfall on a plateau surrounded by mountains. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#trending#popular#China