The fact that they’re realizing systematic environmentalist projects like this kind of supports my argument that, unlike the Anglosphere, the People’s Republic of China actually has a strong socialist movement. A capitalist class would be highly unlikely to pursue something like this on its own, since that would involve prioritizing use‐value over exchange‐value, but communism can easily do this when it has a significant amount of political power in society. That’s why dismissing the PRC as ‘capitalist’ is crude analysis and deeply misleading.

It helps that they produce an absurd amount of rare earths.

To add on to the article’s point, the downward trends in global emissions should continue as carbon capture initiatives become the norm.