I think you're right. I read an article a few months ago that China was slapping together coal plants as quickly as possible. THEN an article came out saying how far ahead the Chinese are with their clean-coal initiative.
Frankly there have been so many POSITIVE articles about China lately and how they are just leaving the West in their dust, that I think we being hit by a major propaganda campaign.
How about, you have a choice. Make sure your population has energy or cut whatever possible to get that blue water navy operational.