Would not China be burning coal?
All of China's coal fired power plants are running flat out and, because of the problem with hydropower, its still not enough. They have a number of oil fired power plants that the keep as backup (they can't afford to burn oil when there are other sources of electricity) that they will have to bring back online until the crisis is over.
Because oil fired electricity is more costly than coal/hydro power, the act of burning oil for electricity will make their inflation problem worse.
They in fact do, a whole bunch. And their environmental genuflecting notwithstanding, thay are commissioning a thousand megawatts of coal fire generation every 10 days. And if you look at their published capacity additions over the next 10 years intend to keep up that pace. And “renewables” well let’s just say it looks good in the western news media but don’t make much juice. No fools, the Chinese.