Every week to 10 days, another coal-fired power plant opens somewhere in China. Unless the country finds a way to clean up its coal plants and the thousands of factories that burn coal, pollution will soar both at home and abroad.
Coal is an inexpensive energy source that is plentiful. While to US struggles with this issue, the Chinese goes forward to fulfill the country's needs without regard to the rest of the world.
This is a tough scenario. The Chinese are faced with an energy crises and they have plenty of coal.
Hopefully they will devise a way to meet their needs and do little damage to the planet, but that doesn't really look possible, does it?