China has set itself two major climate deadlines: a peak in its CO2 emissions before 2030, then carbon neutrality before 2060. In 2021, Xi Jinping also promised to no longer build coal-fired power plants abroad. Five years later, a new report from the Center for Research on Energy and Air Quality (CREA), based in Helsinki, and the organization People of Asia for Climate Solutions (PACS), headquartered in the Philippines, provides a contrasting assessment of this commitment.