China is transforming its sources of energy domestically in a bid to reverse decades of environmental pollution. But the switch to renewable energy has brought about a conundrum: what to do with the jobs and industries that have no future in this new system?
Export them. Several African countries are accepting the poisoned chalice of China's subsidised development through the construction of outdated, dirty coal plants.
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