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And why on earth should someone in - The Americas, Europe, Africa, Oceania, rest-of-Asia care if China wastes their OWN water? China can do whatever they want
by tw04 9y ago
And why on earth should someone in - The Americas, Europe, Africa, Oceania, rest-of-Asia care if China wastes their OWN water? China can do whatever they want with their own natural resources. As long as they aren't actively harming other nations, it's their prerogative.
So yes.. of COURSE people in the US are going to care when a Chinese company comes to the US and starts wasting our natural, shared resources while at the same time not caring at all when China wastes their own shared natural resources. I'm not sure why that would seem odd or confuse you in the least.
In other news: Lots of people are pissed that the current US president is removing protections on national monuments. Same people don't bat an eye when Xi Jinping refuses to create national monuments in China. The sky is blue. Water is wet.
- rangibaby 9y agoFoxconn is a Taiwanese company
- akditer 9y agoTaiwan is same as China
- eesmith 9y agoSure. Now, who is the sole legitimate representative of that sovereignty? (Background info for others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Consensus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Consensus and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Chinas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Chinas ).
- dang 9y agoWe've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the HN guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- tw04 9y agoAnd the US, as with most of the world, doesn't officially recognize Taiwan as an independent nation. But I guess we can spend the day arguing semantics rather than the subject of conversation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Taiwan#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Taiwan#Un...
- rangibaby 9y agoIt’s not semantics when PRC and ROC are de facto seperate nations, and you were certainly referring to the PRC in your post (mentioning Xi...)
- syshum 9y agoThat is a very nationalist outlook of the world and one of the reason we have such a huge problem with the environment Globally... It is all one Planet..
- tw04 9y agoWhich is why I literally said "As long as they aren't harming any other nations"... If you want to assert that the US gets to dictate how every other nation on earth utilizes their own natural resources, I guess you're a big proponent of the end of mankind, because that's how you get world war 3. Talk about a nationalist...
- josefresco 9y ago> As long as they aren't actively harming other nations, it's their prerogative. They are.