Claim: ‘How China is going to save the world’: ‘As China suffers record air pollution, it is also emerging as the world’s leading clean energy investor’
Reality: 'China's commitment to sustainable development has garnered its share of skepticism from environmentalists who argue [it has] & more to do with sustaining a green energy bubble it helped create. The Worldwatch Institute noted that as many as half of wind turbines in NE China aren't connected to any grid, that they are 'ghost' projects like the vacant cities & shopping malls that have been built to prop up China's construction industry'