Of all the countries on Earth, the US is the second-most-vulnerable to damage from global heating.

China is building more coal capacity that would amount to a 25% increase.

Could it be that China wants to provoke disaster because the US will lose more from it than China will? That's the same as the bullshitter's attitude towards a trade war. No, I'm not seriously proposing that theory.

The most vulnerable country is India, which China is not particularly friendly toward either.