Time to spank China

"China is a bad actor. Not to be trusted. What the President is doing with China right now on trade is long, long overdue. They need to be taken down a peg or two. No longer can they act like a rogue nation if they want to be considered a major player on the world stage." 

A very bad actor. I know, we need to trade and deal with this country. But let's put our cards on the table, shall we? The ChiComs of yesterday, are still pretty scary, and way out of control. Only today, they are dangerous. Dangerous, with not so much their military (although their blue water Navy is getting more formidable), but something else. It is what they are doing to the atmosphere. Whether you believe in man-made global warming or not, every day they throw a lot of junk up into the air - more than anyone else.

According to UN data, in 2017 China accounted for over 27% of all the CO2 emissions. How big of a deal is that? That is more than United States, India and Russia (and almost Japan) combined. Even though many statists and globalists always point the finger at the United States as being the bad guy on pollution, we are minor league compared to China. And China always seems to get a pass. But hold on - the story gets much worse.

The Montreal Protocol of 1987. Scientists worldwide had come to agreement that Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) were the main culprit in the depletion of our ozone layer. So the Protocol was an agreement of nations to ban the production and use of such. Initially, not all countries signed on. But by 2015, just about every country in the world, including China and India, had signed it.

Hold the phone! Scientists have noticed this now banned chemical is still getting into the atmosphere! How can that be? Doing some scientific sleuthing, they found the source. Hard to believe, but it is the same country who is stealing our intellectual property. Yes China, one of the signatories on the Montreal Protocol, is the villain. They are cheating (gasp!). Eastern China to be exact is the source of this pollution. Because of China's cheating, the self healing of our ozone layer could be delayed another decade or so. But who cares? Right China?

China is a bad actor. Not to be trusted. What the President is doing with China right now on trade is long, long overdue. They need to be taken down a peg or two. No longer can they act like a rogue nation if they want to be considered a major player on the world stage. 

Next time a "greenie" comes up to guilt you about your SUV or truck, and how much environmental damage you are doing, point your finger eastward. Tell that useful idiot to write a letter to China instead. Russia at one time was the chief bad guy in the world. I think that title may have changed hands to China.