The Chinese regime may have used the Winter Olympics to signal an interest in clean energy, but critics suggest the event’s purported “carbon neutrality” is mere theater amid a record of sizeable fossil fuel consumption. “It’s a bunch of theater really,” said Riley Walters, an expert on East Asia at the Hudson Institute, a Washington-based think tank. “To say that the Winter Olympics was a net zero or green … and then … to announce a $4 billion investment in three new coal mines. It’s theater. It’s like saying my fridge is 100% net-zero on emissions but I’ve got a diesel washing machine.” Walters was referring to China’s top planning agency approving $3.8 billion worth of coal mines on Feb. 21, a move that would reportedly yield 19 million tons of coal per year. A week after February’s Games started, China’s state-run news agency also announced coal-fire powered plants would …