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โ€˜Overcapacityโ€™ talk reflects a West irked by Chinaโ€™s industrial rise

There is something odd about the debate on Chinaโ€™s โ€œovercapacityโ€. Europe says the world needs cheaper and faster clean energy deployment, yet complains when China produces the solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and electric vehicles that make this possible. Bruegel, a Brussels-based think tank specialising in economic policy, recently published a working paper, โ€œTo what extent can green infrastructure investment mitigate Chinaโ€™s clean-energy overcapacity?โ€ It argues that Chinaโ€™s industrial...