Democrat frontrunner Biden says he will stop China spreading coal around the world

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Joe Biden, who tops opinion polls in the Democratic primaries, pledges to build a coalition of nations to scrub dirty energy from China's belt and road programme

Joe Biden has promised to crack down on China's coal power spree in other countries if elected US president in 2020. In a detailed climate manifesto published on Tuesday, the frontrunner in the US...

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