China’s green Belt and Road push leaves plenty of gray areas

Piles of coal sit near port facilities as gantry cranes stand in the background at Qinhuangdao Port in 2016. China's efforts to quell surging coal prices showed signs they’re working, with benchmark prices dropping for the first time in a year as the country's production rose to the highest in seven months. | BLOOMBERG

Since China launched the Belt and Road initiative in 2013, the project has come under a lot of criticism for funding polluting activities overseas. That’s started to change with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent pledge to stop supporting foreign coal projects. In the past ten months, top government departments have released three documents laying out

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