China’s Energy Crisis
... contradictions, not to develop a long-term solution, and that makes similar crises possible in future. 1 . Western media greatly overblow the significance that the unofficial prohibition on importing coal from Australia has had for the problems of China’s energy sector. The share of imports in China’s coal consumption is not great, and it is important mostly for coastal provinces where it is cheaper to receive coal shipped by sea from abroad than to have Chinese-produced coal shipped by rail across the entire country. When China refused to purchase ...