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China has reduced sulphur dioxide emissions by more than two-thirds in the last 15 years
(ourworldindata.org)
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inb4 China gets blamed for increasing the pace of global warming by decreasing atmospheric albedo.
To be fair, this is a slightly wider view of the data:
Now, do CO2
get the Americans to stop demanding Chinese goods first. tariffs will partly do the job by eroding purchasing power.
and where U.S. is spending more on military than next 9 countries combined, China is building twice as much wind and solar as rest of the world combined.
dw they are
*per capita
Last I checked (I don't feel like checking right now), it's plateaued and expected to start decreasing by 2030.