muh fossil fuels 
The falling cost of renewable energy, though, means that many countries, particularly poorer ones, have a strong incentive to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels.
According to Ember’s report, the falling costs of energy produced by Chinese-made wind and solar installations have allowed countries like Mexico, Bangladesh and Malaysia to race past the United States in recent years in terms of using renewably produced electricity (rather than fossil fuels) in everyday activities like heating and cooling buildings or powering vehicles.
Across Africa, solar panel imports from China rose 60 percent in the last 12 months, and 20 African countries imported a record amount over that period, Ember said in a separate study recently.
American companies, who do not make solar panels or wind turbines at anywhere near the scale of Chinese ones, are at a major disadvantage. Chinese companies now supply 80 percent of solar panels and 60 percent of wind turbines worldwide, Ember said.
China has pushed for dominance in renewable energy partly for economic reasons and also to protect its national security by limiting its reliance on oil imports. But the implications for the planet’s health could scarcely be greater. Scientific consensus has long been that a sharp decline in fossil fuel use is the surest way to lessen the pace of climate change.
Right, these are obviously the only reasons the asiatic hordes would have for considering this. It is only us, the superior enlightened westerners who could ever consider the planet's healt. As in, we considered it and decided to not give a single fuck. /s
Even if this were true and China was doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, I'd still take them over the West who continually does the wrong thing for the wrong reasons.
Yup and it's funny to me that these real material reasons are brought up sort of moralistically when it's Western "journalism" reporting on something somebody else does.
Like it isn't very much the same reasons any nation operates by, difference being that the profit motive alone doesn't dictate everything. Which of course explains why none of this is happening in capitalist countries.