The UN is a joke. Something should be done.
That is the way the UN was originally set up. The UN has no instruments of its own to enforce anything.
We wouldn't think it reasonable if someone on trial for embezzlement asked the jury to acquit because there are other people out in the world committing murder.
We only put up with it in news and politics because we have normalized and accepted propaganda.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/russia-mig-31-...
US does these things, its just not highlighted front page material in American press when it happens, so it goes unnoticed to American populations unlike when adversaries like Russia fly bombers near Alaska.
Also US conducted similar maneuvers as what China did to Taiwan but to Iraq preceeding the Iraq invasion.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MoNDefense/status/144397595657879...
This was a routine Chinese air patrol that got propagandized by the US.
It is. Because it is one of the biggest threats to human rights and to a clean environment. If UN can't tackle China, they are feckless, but of course we all know this. This is a stick to beat the west with while China and Russia and the new axis of evil get to keep running rough-shot over the rest of the world.
So China just almost caught up to Europe as far as CO2 emissions per capita goes and is nowhere close to the US whilst putting measures to reverse the trend. That comparison used to be ridiculous just a few decades ago when they were comparatively massively underdeveloped.
Often this involves the whole blame-shifting where one poses one shouldn't do anything because there's someone doing less/worse. But in this case it's not even true. Not even if they lied about their numbers by
I said clean environment. Not sure why you are changing the subject, but lets see:
https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution#top-20-river-so...
> Geographically we see that the majority of the most polluting rivers are located in Asia. River Yangtze, the top polluting river, had an input of approximately 333,000 tonnes in 2015 — over 4 percent of annual ocean plastic pollution.
> Often this involves the whole blame-shifting
Okay but then just don't shift the blame from countries that threatens a clean environment to countries that do not.
7 billion people in the world and they should all be ruled by a bunch of bureaucrats???
I hope that day never comes.
For WTO, no army is going to invade because you didn’t remove tariffs.
I had to ctrl+shift+F the webpage to see if I missed something on the Reuters article relating to China.
What does Chinese policy on human rights have anything to do with the above mentioned article?
It's just as relevant as your comment.