A perfect storm of environmental deterioration, economic opportunism and geopolitical jockeying for position is fuelling a rapid Chinese move into renewable technologies such as wind, solar and wave power, according to Miranda Schreurs, director of the Environmental Policy Research Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin.
"China is moving in the same direction as the European Union," Schreurs told Euractiv Czech Republic in an interview. "Europe still leads in the development and deployment of new renewable technologies but China is becoming an increasingly big player," she said.
"Of course, China does not want to simply follow Europe in this area. They want to compete, and maybe even overtake Europe," she added.
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