Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. Last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This statement can be used to describe so many countries, it’s odd you’re just saying it about the Chinese govt.

There are many reasons why China catches heat for this.

China is big so when it does things like this it tends to have a larger impact than other countries' practices. Also it has been growing very fast, and we tend to notice things that are changing. China's assertiveness on the world stage also causes anxiety which has a halo effect on China's other actions/policies.

They are just the latest and largest ever example of this age old strategy being deployed again. Classic nationalistic power grab.

...because the thread is about the Chinese fishing fleet?

Are you in all honesty trying to argue that it would be fair and just if a Chinese person was only allowed to emit one tenth of that of a German person?

That would not be fair and just. As of 2018 China emits 8 tons of CO2 per capita while Germany emits 9.1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

I expect the per-capita gap to shrink further in the next few years. China's much higher absolute emissions are largely a function of its much larger population.