> China has never been one to care much about things like ethics or safety. While the west worries about climate change, China burns more coal than ever before.

China uses more energy than ever before, but out of big systems, they are easily in the lead when it comes to solar generation: they have higher production per capita than US, and have produced around 4x as much TWh than US in the second: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country

It is simply a huge country of 1.1B people that's developing fast, which means that they need all the energy they can get.

Basically, their energy needs per capita are still lower than US, yet they produce more renewables — that's a counterargument to your point about them not caring.