Very few people realize that a significant contributor to the current global energy crisis is the depletion of Chinese coal mines. China is both the largest coal consumer and producer on earth BY FAR. Look at the data here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_coal_production China produces over 5X as much coal as the second largest producer (India) and over HALF of all coal production globally.
China has vast coal reserves, but not nearly as much as many countries (the US has the largest), and these have been severely depleted due to decades of intensive extraction. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_coal_reserves Mining of coal has greatly spiked due to the energy crisis, and at current rates China has less than 20 years of coal left.
That's not the main problem though. What's caused the energy crisis (in part) is that all the cheaply accessable coal in China has already been mined, and producers are having to dig deeper and deeper and costs are skyrocketing.
20 more years, as I said. Your family left the homeland for good reason, and refused to go back when Xi ordered the diaspora to in 2020 for good reason too.
I heard the Ghost of Kiev bombed every single Chinese coal plant into oblivion and destroyed all of their underground reserves with a super duper bunker buster bomb! Wowzers!
>Very few people realize that a significant contributor to the current global energy crisis is the depletion of Chinese coal mines China's power shortage has very little to do with the global energy crisis. The best you can attribute to it are the supply line disruptions due to factories getting closed for a short period of time. By the time China is facing the risk of depleting its coal it would either be importing gas from Russia or buying up coal mines for pennies in the US.
