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    2 hours ago

    This guy appears to be the founder not the owner:

    Asia Times Online was created early in 1999, at atimes.com, describing itself as a successor in “publication policy and editorial outlook” to the print newspaper Asia Times, owned by Sondhi Limthongkul, a Thai media mogul and leader of the People’s Alliance for Democracy, who later sold his business.source, emphasis mine

    Media Bias Fact Check lists them as “mostly factual”.

    None of which makes the paragraph cited by thread op any more correct, obviously. (Fwiw: coal power is cheap in China because it is heavily subsidized & there’s no CO2 trading scheme, afaik. Overall, German companies opening factories in China because they’re cheap tracks, however.)

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      The Asia Times is based in Hong Kong in the meantime, so the Chinese government will have a close hold on what they publish. That’s why I’d agree with what others already said to not trust them to much …

      Just fyi: China does have its own national carbon trading scheme, but it appears to be as ineffective as those in the West.