What Will China's Green-Tech Ambitions Cost the World?
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The NYT article examines China's aggressive green-tech expansion in Southeast Asia, raising concerns about its global implications, while HN commenters discuss the nuances of China's green-tech ambitions and their potential consequences.
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You'd hope the repeated references to the decade-long, illegal (both internationally and domestically) bombing campaign waged on the country was an intentional if heavy-handed way to point to a better future of economic cooperation and clean energy.
Yet a few engineers getting together to celebrate a project's first successful operation after completion is portrayed as a much darker and more ominous occurrence.