The Chinese are polluting themselves to death

China is a real paradox. Maybe it always has been the last 6000 years of it's culture. Ever since Qin Shi Huang joined the whole country together as one in 221 BC it has been too large to effectively govern ever since.

This likely is the real paradox of China since 221BC. It is just too large a country to effectively govern ever since. So, China invading another country hasn't really ever been practical because when they have tried this their ungovernable country becomes even more ungovernable. So, the paradox is sort of a controlled thing that might work only if they don't get involved in wars outside of their country.

But, this has nothing to do with economic wars against other countries which have already existed continuously since 221 BC.

For example, the economic war against the U.S. and Europe by China and Russia, China is presently winning because of Trump. By focusing Trump on Kim Jong Un of North Korea it is actually a slight of hand while China makes economic forays into all Asian countries saying, "Look at the idiot Trump! You cannot trust anything Trump says. Come trade with us because you can at least depend upon us to be sane!

And then you have the overpopulation problem without an ecologically effective government. So, you have the same basic problems that Russia ran into at the end of the Cold War in 1990 with rivers and streams on fire from pollution so bad that people were drawing kerosene to heat their houses off the tops of rivers in Russia. In China the water and air and land pollution is killing millions of Chinese or more every year now. To the point where the richest Chinese are now moving to Hawaii, Canada and the U.S. (especially their children) so they don't die or get sick from air, land and water pollution before their time.

But then you have state factories producing solar panels that are under price subsidized by the Chinese Government to put all foreign producers of Solar Cells out of business which they pretty much have (except for countries where labor costs are lower than China).

Now you have Trump putting a 30% tariff on all solar panels coming into the U.S. which is starting now to screw up the whole solar industry in the U.S. as far as people in places like California, Arizona and other sunny states going solar.

So, Trump in regard to being energy efficient is playing into the hands of the Chinese and Russians by making the U.S. much less competitive by keeping energy prices high here so we cannot compete with other countries like China economically.

But, then you have rich Americans buying Teslas bringing down the price of gasoline and diesel by charging their Teslas that they drive to work from solar arrays on their homes so NO gas or diesel or coal at all is used to get their power into their cars.

So, where does it all end?

That remains to be seen.

My hope is that the damage Trump has made to the American form of Government isn't fatal to the U.S. country and people.

If this is true then Trump will only have been like when a car breaks down on the freeway for a day or so when you need to call a tow truck to have it worked on for a few days to get it fixed.

So, whatever Trump is doing hopefully is only Temporarily harmful to the U.S. and our democracy and our people.

If we can survive Trump and make laws to prevent others like him from ever becoming president, we might just survive the rest of this century intact having been immunized. In other words Trump might be like getting a flu shot to prevent worse presidents in the future the next 50 years or so.

So, will the Chinese continue to pollute themselves to death?

This appears true at least in the short run.

Remember, there was a time in the 1950s where the smog was so bad in Los Angeles that if you started crying as a child from the sulphur in the air you couldn't stop when you were outside. I was one of those children. And if you went swimming at Verdugo Olympic sized swimming pool in Glendale while growing up in the 1950s in the Los Angeles area, the clorine from the pool mixed with breathing the bad smog made your lungs feel like you were being stabbed with a knife in your lungs every single breath on a bad smoggy day then in the 1950s.

It isn't like that any more in Los Angeles. Because of catalytic converters now required on cars you can usually see in Los Angeles the mountains or ocean.

The smog of London used to kill too. So, eventually (one would think) that China would make laws to protect it's people from death like we have in California and London, England?

History of China - Wikipedia

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

Written records of the history of China date from as early as 1500 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC). Ancient historical texts such as the Records of the Grand Historian (c. 100 BC) and the Bamboo Annals (296 BC) describe a Xia dynasty (c. 2070–1600 BC) before the Shang, but no writing on a durable ...

Qin Shi Huang - Wikipedia

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The only independent country left was now state of Qi, in the far east, what is now the Shandong peninsula. Terrified, the young king of Qi sent 200,000 people to defend his western borders. In 221 BC, the Qin armies invaded from the north, captured the king, and annexed Qi. Some of the strategies Qin used to unify China ...