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Americans need to pay for Chinese emissions?

It seems only fair that the Chinese people who are having their environment trashed in order to placate out of control Western consumerism deserve some sort of compensation. Of course, what they really deserve is to not have their environment trashed in the first place, but corporate and government interests in China and the West couldn't have that...
 
China needs labor reform. Pay their workers better. Manufacture quality goods instead of cheap crap. You'd see a return of jobs to the US because it wouldn't be as cheap to outsource.

Of course somebody else would probably do the dirt cheap labor, making low quality goods . . .
 
The only reason China can sell their cheap crap is because it's cheap. Take away the "cheap" part and you're just left with overpriced crap.
 
China is not the victim here. They have deliberately overpopulated and created a manufacturing based economy, and kept both the value of the yuan and the worker artificially depreciated. They love having great customers such as the West. They are in no way, shape, or form, victims of western corporate greed. They are, however, only happy to inject life into their economy any way they can get it.

It is the Chinese themselves who have not yet developed higher environmental/safety/labor standards. This makes manufacture cheaper, and gives them their only competitive edge over their many manufacturing neighbors. Well, that and promises of access to their market (which is never quite so profitable as it sounds).

If there are any victims of outsourcing to China, aside from the Chinese living under their own "enforcements", it is the workers at home, bound by those higher-costing production regulations and centuries of industrial regulatory development.
 
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