Comments by "HomerOJSimpson" (@Homer-OJ-Simpson) on "Rare Earths: Can Sweden End Europe’s Dependence on China?" video.

@Naveen-tq7cg are you in Beijing or Moscow?
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@Naveen-tq7cg Doubts. You are repeating Beijing ad Moscow talking points.
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@Naveen-tq7cg "The fact that Beijing/Moscow bring these points up doesn't automatically discredit them" no, but it's not true as you descirbed it and it says a lot about you repeating talking points from them. " but it's an active decision to outsource your garbage." And yet China has worse regulation than even the US. So for the same good made, China is polluting a lot more. Maybe you would agree that China is only allowed to sell goods to other countries if it meets their environmental standards? Or at least on goods that go to the west? So a tariff on all Chinese goods that don't meet western environmental standards? You agree with that?
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@Naveen-tq7cg "I would be open to tariffs on highly polluting products. A flat tariff rate on a nation based on per capita emissions however makes close to no sense." It would have to be a flat tariff for all polluting products based on China's (or whoever else) NOT enacting environmental regulations that match the west and NOT following through with those environmental regulations if they were enacted. So China has to pass a min level of environmental regulations and actually follow through on the policy to avoid the tariffs. That would be easier than actually trying to calculate the emissions produced by each product You mentioned the west is just exporting it's pollution so this would mostly solve that specific issue about exporting pollution. We aren't talking about individual pollutions - that isn't what is exported.
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@Naveen-tq7cg What you said was beijing / Moswow talking points. EU and US are considerably reducing their carbon and pollution emissions. China is increasing it's use of coal while US is and EU has been been decreasing it for a while! That's not about manufacturing being sent to China, that's about decision China is making.
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@Naveen-tq7cg "This is not just about China." Okay, it was meant to be applied to every country that you believe the west is sending their garbage. China was chosen because it's where most of that 'garbage' is coming from. " So you think we should put tariffs and pressure on developing countries for trying to industrialise through polluting methods, while that is explicitly how the west did it?" You can't even have an honest conversation!! What's wrong with you? So the west is at fault for sending their garbage polluting industries abroad but if they try to penalize polluters, it's also the west fault? I saw your game from the start!
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@Naveen-tq7cg " You're essentially saying that we should keep the rest of the nations poor", That's actually what YOU suggested when you blamed the west for sending industries abroad. Learn to be honest.
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