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    Why Is China Placing A Global Bet On Coal?

    China has taken dramatic steps to fight climate change, including shutting major coal power plants. But now it plans to build hundreds of coal plants abroad.
    by Steve Inskeep Apr 29, 2019 3 minutes
    A Chinese-backed power plant under construction in 2018 in the desert in the Tharparkar district of Pakistan's southern Sindh province.

    China, known as the world's biggest polluter, has been taking dramatic steps to clean up and fight climate change.

    So why is it also building hundreds of coal-fired power plants in other countries?

    President Xi Jinping hosted the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing over the weekend, promoting his signature foreign policy of building massive infrastructure and trade links across several continents.

    The forum, attended by leaders and delegates of nearly 40 countries, came amid growing criticism of China's projects, including their effect on the environment.

    Xi took the highly unusual step, for him, of

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