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India and Modi High Step Into China’s Backyard Can New Delhi take advantage of Beijing’s weakened economic clout to expand its own influence in Southeast Asia? ...... With China burdened by an intractable economic slowdown, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gone on a multi-nation tour to impress its newfound influence around the world. He’s just been to both Kyiv and Moscow. This week, he’s in Brunei and Singapore in Southeast Asia, a region China considers its backyard. ....... China has accounted for about 97% of the world’s increase in coal production since 2018. Now, however, it has been left with a vast and slowly deteriorating pile of solid fuel. … There’s little reason for climate advocates to celebrate the fact that this inventory isn’t being burned. Coal that’s oxidized in a stockpile will produce carbon dioxide just as surely as the stuff that’s incinerated in a power plant — it just won’t produce any useful energy, a worst-of-both-worlds situation.”

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