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Environmental? China emit more CO2 than the EU and US combined https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2018/07/01/china-emits-more-carbon-diox
by asabjorn 7y ago
Environmental? China emit more CO2 than the EU and US combined https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2018/07/01/china-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-than-the-u-s-and-eu-combined/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/20...
Human rights? They have started putting Uighurs, Buddhists and Falun Gong into re-education camps https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong
Two previous points also counter the rule of law point, which is admittedly a western concept.
- chvid 7y agoChina is 1.4 B people; why wouldn't it have higher co2 emissions than EU and USA? Anyways. We can chat about particular data points. But if you look at the broad picture over decades; you really have to be willfully blind to deny massive improvements that have happened.
- asabjorn 7y agoThe claim though was that it had improved on these and other points. And at least on these there seem to be a big and widely published degradation. Can always talk about data on the other points as well to see what they say.