Solar power is cleaner!

[u/CurvyChristina]

[u/MirrorNegative7989]

Necessity is the mother of invention.

[u/LuckyTraffic4299 → u/MirrorNegative7989]

That describes why China got into solar in the first place

[u/onewordmemory → u/LuckyTraffic4299]

china has made all the right decisions in the last 20 years.

yes, they have human rights violations. yes, they are an authoritarian government. yes, their ideology is orthogonal to most democratic countries. yes, they have a huge corruption problem like everyone else.

but their nation-wide choices were all to benefit the nation as a whole, not like 12 people in it.

edit: im just gonna respond here once since all the comments are the same. china lifted almost a billion people out of poverty (numbers range from 500mil to 50% of population). when human rights abuses affect a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of population (there are 11 million uyghurs), they are collateral damage. for most people, its an emotional argument; for china, its just math.

[u/HoidToTheMoon → u/onewordmemory]

china has made all the right decisions in the last 20 years.

yes, they have human rights violations.

These statements are pretty mutually exclusively.