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I (almost) always try to make positive/helpful comments in this forum. But reading (again) about these "complaints" the below comes to mind:

...<title of Lake Michigan article>, while at the same time, somewhere else on this planet (perhaps China?) many factories do the exact same thing, and since it hasn't caused noise, very few think about it. And at the same time people in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Oceania, rest-of-Asia (countries that don't host such factories), go on in their day looking at their smartphone screens, reading news about Lake Michigan.

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I think it’s actually good that this happens in the states because it gets attention (see above article) and things can be done to enhance the situation. I have no clue how these things get handled in China and elsewhere. I have a guess though. BTW: Recently I’ve learned on HN that rivers in China and India are mostly responsible for plastics in the oceans.

Sounds like someone needs to install a trash wheel. [0]

[0] http://baltimorewaterfront.com/healthy-harbor/water-wheel/

That trash is from private citizens dumping garbage into waterways, not from industry.

But who is complaining?

And why on earth should someone in - The Americas, Europe, Africa, Oceania, rest-of-Asia care if China wastes their OWN water? China can do whatever they want with their own natural resources. As long as they aren't actively harming other nations, it's their prerogative.

So yes.. of COURSE people in the US are going to care when a Chinese company comes to the US and starts wasting our natural, shared resources while at the same time not caring at all when China wastes their own shared natural resources. I'm not sure why that would seem odd or confuse you in the least.

In other news: Lots of people are pissed that the current US president is removing protections on national monuments. Same people don't bat an eye when Xi Jinping refuses to create national monuments in China. The sky is blue. Water is wet.

Foxconn is a Taiwanese company

Taiwan is same as China

Sure. Now, who is the sole legitimate representative of that sovereignty?

(Background info for others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Consensus and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Chinas ).

We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the HN guidelines.

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And the US, as with most of the world, doesn't officially recognize Taiwan as an independent nation. But I guess we can spend the day arguing semantics rather than the subject of conversation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Taiwan#Un...

It’s not semantics when PRC and ROC are de facto seperate nations, and you were certainly referring to the PRC in your post (mentioning Xi...)

That is a very nationalist outlook of the world and one of the reason we have such a huge problem with the environment Globally...

It is all one Planet..

Which is why I literally said "As long as they aren't harming any other nations"...

If you want to assert that the US gets to dictate how every other nation on earth utilizes their own natural resources, I guess you're a big proponent of the end of mankind, because that's how you get world war 3. Talk about a nationalist...

> As long as they aren't actively harming other nations, it's their prerogative.

They are.

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