1 Asia’s clean-tech tigers are already launching massive government investment programs to dominate this industry.
2 A new report by the Breakthrough Institute argues that China, along with Japan and Korea, will dominate the clean-energy race by out-investing America.
3 Consequently, they have surpassed the U.S. in virtually all clean-energy areas, including wind, solar, and electric-car batteries.
4 In 2009, China already became the planet’s largest producer of wind turbines.
5 While America was digging itself out of its financial crisis, China quietly positioned itself to become a leader in the largest emerging industry of the 21st century: green tech.
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