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> Egypt is being puppeted by China

Sources? And depending on your definition of "puppeted", it looks like pretty much everyone on the world stage is "puppeted" by China.

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There are plenty of sources if you search for it:

https://www.reuters.com/article/egypt-china-financing-idUSL5...

I mean, yes, but that's not a bad thing. We aren't going to be able to stop catastrophic climate change without authoritarianism.

China has brought on more coal powerplant last year than exist in the west on total. What are you talking about?

Coal in China supplies 53% of its electrical power. It is dropping slowly though. Hopefully they will succeed. Air pollution from those coal power plants is absolutely atrocious.

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