But can you?

Is the source official chinese stats, independant IEA auditors, the people that put out the nuclear red book .. do you even know, that is the question.

> China’s new reactor construction has slowed in recent years

Is that construction or completion (I trust you understand the distinction).

Is that in total (global nuclear reactor construction by china) or local (just those within China's mainland boundaries).

> the chart I grabbed from a collection of thirty similar charts, solely because it illustrated the same trend with slightly more recent data.

Read that back to yourself and ponder how that sounds.

TL;DR: more intellectual clarification and honest revelation of raw data, less unsourced random opinion | charts.