You’re also missing that a very large part of Chinese manufacturing and Chinese resource extraction goes directly to the West. By your logic, should those not be counted as the West’s emissions?
Counted for what? Sure, ultimately those are largely the responsibility of the west (but also China’s as they are intentionally undercutting companies working in the west by subsidizing energy costs from their dirty coal power plants for example), but in the end that doesn’t really matter as global warming does not care about who is responsible…
You’re also missing that a very large part of Chinese manufacturing and Chinese resource extraction goes directly to the West. By your logic, should those not be counted as the West’s emissions?
Counted for what? Sure, ultimately those are largely the responsibility of the west (but also China’s as they are intentionally undercutting companies working in the west by subsidizing energy costs from their dirty coal power plants for example), but in the end that doesn’t really matter as global warming does not care about who is responsible…
Luckily China is also leading the world on green technology, picking up the slack for the West who are burying their heads in the sand.