Not content with merely living in foul pollution themselves, the Chinese now think it is fit and proper that they should pollute other countries as well.  Chinese filth is so prevalent, noxious, and voluminous that you can see it from the Earth's orbit.  Beijing, famous for a thick smog that covers the city, has approximately 100 "blue-sky" days per year.  It's no wonder that Olympic athletes refuse to train there and the Chinese government is embarrassed and trying to move athletic venues.

Chinese pollution, rolling rampant over Korea and Japan, now threatens North America as they continue to belch forth their disgusting pollution.

http://geology.com/nasa/monitoring-pollution-by-satellite.shtml

China should clean up its act.  It's shameful enough that their own citizens have to live in that filth, they shouldn't be permitted to pollute clean countries.  China should be responsible for all costs associated with cleaning up its filth and all health problems that result from its failure to do so.

Considering the fact China mostly produces for us, the 'West'. We, the 'West' should blame our companies that move industry to China in first place. Just to make it easier for you to understand think of what would happen if Chinese government forces anti-polluting policies within China. You will end up with DVD that costs twice than before, you will cry again, industry will move to Hanalulu and then circulating around the globe.

So if you wish to fight, fight large companies that produce possible pollution and not just China because Chinese like any other normal human at first place want their foods on the table.

 

Available technology was a little different during "Dickens time".......

Weak.

What a terrible response.  If the Chinese are happy to live in filth and pollution, fine.  It's not like they have any freedom to criticize their government and tell them to do otherwise.  The enslaved Chinese population just has to bend over and take it from their government.  If the dictators say:  "We're building a chemical factory right next to your river" there's nothing the people can do to stop it --  despite it being "The People's" government.  Yeah, right.

So ok.  Pollute away, destroy your own environment.  Half of China is already a desert and the Chinese are doing a hell of a job and making their whole country a desert.  Beijing already has sandstorms that paralyze the city.  The point of the thread was that China should at least make efforts to keep its filth and its trash within its own borders, instead of making Korea and Japan, and North America, for that matter, as dirty and disgusting as the Chinese environment.

Japan is an amazingly clean country.  China should follow the Japanese leaders.  Japan sets an excellent example for China to follow.  Japanese technology is decades ahead of Chinese technology; perhaps the Chinese should acquire some of the technology from the Japanese, who manufacture high-quality goods with minimal pollution.

Wrong.  Japan is clean because it has a government that is responsible to its citizenry.  And those citizens don't stand for the awful pollution that is belched out by the Chinese factories.  The Chinese citizens are essentially prisoners to their government.  They have no power to object or set local standards.  If the Beijing dictators put a power plant next to an elementary school, they can't object.  Further, the Chinese government standards are so low that it's atrocious.  It's not foreign factories that pollute the country, sir.

I have opened two production facilities in China.  Foreign companies are held to a very high standard.  It's your local, domestic state-owned competitors that are free to pollute without concern.

How many production facilities have you opened in China?  Get your facts straight.

Chinese want to produce as cheap as possible. They don't invest money in the environement.
And if Western owned factories polute there, it's the fault of the Chinese governement which allows that.

I'm personaly ready to pay more for stuffs like dvd player (which you buy only once in a while anyway) if it pays for better social and environemental wellbeing of those who did it.

But I already don't buy Chinese products anymore (at least when it's possible), especialy not DVD players.
Now, I always avoid low-end cheap stuffs, hoping that by paying more I won't have to move it back to the garantee service or go buy a new one after the garantee expired.

Please explain how the revised title continues to "break the rules."

I understand why the first title could be interpreted as in violation of the Posting Rules, although that was not my intent.  I quickly and without objection modified the title and reposted with the approval of Ahkenaten.

So I am very curious why another moderator views the revised title as in violation of any rule.  Please advise.

Exactly.  Also there's something a bit unfair about westerners expecting China not to develop.  Are they mean to just sit around in mud huts?

30 years ago they had the cultural revolution.  Now even poor Chinese people have electricity, running water, televisions, DVD players.  It's not a third world country any more. They have food on the table.  Are people saying they should have to go back to the poverty of before?

And in time, they will get cleaner, without a doubt.