The New York Times devotes a lot of effort to bashing the Chinese Communist Party, thus it is interesting that today the Chinese leadership receives praise from the NY Times. The backstory is the fact that President Trump is repealing President Obama's low carbon policies. The New York Times now is hoping and saying that China will have to lead the world's low carbon agenda.
For those interested in academic economics, I suggest that you take a look at a couple of my papers on this subject;
our 2016 book
our 2017 Journal of Economic Perspectives paper
my 2011 Energy Policy paper
My piece in The Conversation also summarizes my thinking.