China has this huge issue: taking care of a large fraction of its population down the road from the cumulative effects of some of the worst air and water pollution problems of recent years. It’s a cost that could bankrupt the country.
Seriously, I just shake my head whenever I hear that China is some leader in renewable energy and environmentally conscious stuff. Having been there, I can say China is horrible. Its air pollution is so bad it now spreads out over South Korea and Japan. I’ve been in Seoul on days when I just start hacking away from the bad air quality from the “fine dust” from China.
Went to Vietnam recently. It’s just as bad in Hanoi, the whole city is covered by this gloomy grey pall which you at first think is fog but is really air pollution. Check out the videos of Trump and Kim Jong Un meeting and their driving through the streets of Hanoi. Looks like that all the time. The sun doesn’t shine there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZXG30frtnY
China will take care of neither its pollution nor its elderly and it won’t care one bit.