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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator, where each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind

them. I'm Laura Prendergars, the Spectator's executive editor. And I'm William Moore,

The Spectators Features Editor. On this week's episode, we will be talking about China's green

agenda. We'll be discussing how changes to graduate visas could start to undermine the British dream

and we'll be debating the ethics of eating man's best friend.

First up, in her cover piece for the magazine this week,

Cindy Yu, writing ahead of the COP28 summit,

describes how China has cornered the renewables market. She joins us now, along with

Akshat Rathi, senior climate reporter for Bloomberg, an author of Climate Capitalism,

winning the global race to zero emissions. Cindy, could you start by telling our listeners

what you mean when you say that China has cornered the green

market? And can you give a sense of the extent of China's dominance over green technology?

Yeah, so we're talking about various renewable energy technologies. And Chinese state media is

talking about the Xinjiang, the new three, which they refer to as batteries, EVs and solar panels.

And those are the things that they are saying are driving the Chinese economy now,

replacing the old three of clothing, furniture and home electronics. And so just to give you an idea

of how well China is doing in terms of the scale, on the global scale, China's now the world's

largest investor in renewable energy. It makes three quarters of the scale, on a global scale. China's now the world's largest investor

in renewable energy. It makes three quarters of the world's lithium iron batteries, which is what

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