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Originally Posted by Sea Demon

Actually, no. I'm just waiting for those who badger America about emissions to turn toward China and harass them about their disgusting lakes, rivers, air quality, and emissions. All of which seem worse than America now, and getting worse. It's really quite simple why I bring this up. I really just love to test the intellectual honesty and integrity of America bashers. They quite often show themselves not to be honest, intellectual, or to have any real integrity whatsoever. I actually hope some looney lefty environuts will go and protest in downtown Beijing over this.

The difference between lobbying America to curb emmissions and lobbying China is that America is the moral leader for much of the economic world. What the US does it can force others to do. China... you could make China do all sorts of things if the neo-conservative economic mindset thats ingrained in our times didn't make us so afraid of damaging the growth of the economy over the short term. Whatever you want to say about China, when Deng Xiao Ping basically made China into a Capitalist Oligarchy in the 80s the alleged Free Market had an orgasm. The morality of the environment is mitigated by the need to produce more wealth. The head honcho is still the US. The US slows down more reforms that any other nation at the UN. Just look at the Veto records. At the G8 and the WTO too.

In the short the benefits of the Chinese rise falls most of all to the entrepeneurs who have invested in that market. In the long haul the US will be hurt by this but the nation isn't at the heart of the interests. The wealthy elite that run the investments would just as easily live in Beijing. They are also the people who run the foreign policy of the United States.

You always look for the head of the snake because the body always follows behind it.