How the West Got China Wrong

Re:How the West Got China Wrong by barrkel on Friday March 02, 2018 @07:20AM (#16500879)

If we cut off China from world trade in order to reduce Chinese smog, we'd be condemning factory workers to go back to subsistence farming and a worse life overall.

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Re:How the West Got China Wrong by chiefalchemist on Friday March 02, 2018 @02:20PM (#16504761)

I'm not even close to suggesting that. I'm only pointing out that the conventional wisdom is biz goes to China for cheap labor. That's barely half of it. It's the lack of reg - esp environmental - that's the draw.

The "bonus" is, politicians in the West can claim they cleaned things up at home. Lol. Oh hell no. When the jobs left, so did the (direct) pollution.

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