You’re conflating the country of China with the people of China. I’m talking about the country of China and it’s economic relationship with the west.

It’s not racist to point out the economic reality of capitalist exploitation. I’m not saying that China has been subjugated by global capitalism because the people of China are inferior. Might does not make right.

EDIT: Your #1 point might as well say “ignore the entire past and present of western imperialism in China”.

...Because the US is willing to import goods that were manufactured with low standards, as long as the goods are cheap.

Chinese manufacturing is a necessary part of our current global economy. This isn’t accidental, it’s the result of western countries imposing strict environmental standards in their own countries while supporting exploitative manufacturing in China.

It’s pretty convenient to ignore how much influence global capitalism (which was imposed on China by the west) has on this statistic. Do you think American consumerism has no impact on China’s emissions?