1 In 2013, pictures of cities hit the Internet and the world reacted with shock Living in Beijing was equated to living in an airport _ The country has become the world's largest manufacturer of solar panels, 9 -and electric vehicles When Trump withdrew the U.S from the Paris Agreement, China became the signatory with the most _and a climate leader And while experts say that international pressure could push China to decarbonize more quickly, _might make climate cooperation difficult for new President-elect Joe Biden That's going to mean, first and foremost, bringing a domestic conversation _, succeeding This, combined with widely available, cheap labor, exploitative working conditions and _and environmental regulations, led to a manufacturing boom and rapid infrastructure build out Starting in 2001, when China joined the WTO, it tripled its coal consumption to power its economic miracle - a decade when it quadrupled its GDP and But when it came to the point in 2013 where people couldn't breathe, that's when China realized that it needed to _ extremely smoggy Chinese smoking lounge lithium ion batteries economic clout/ de facto frayed U.S.-China relations to the fore permissive health, safety quintupled its exports rein in coal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zt-SMlaaM8