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Why is it an American interest to help the Chinese with their air pollution if they don't want to do it themselves? You are literally doing the meme from the famous https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12227-0 paper.



There are two non-moral reasons I can think of:

- By forcing the Chinese to fix their air quality, this indirectly makes then economically less competitive, since they need to tighten their processes.

- Polution travels all over the globe, everyone eventually is impacted.


There are a lot of Americans travelling to or working in China, it is in their interest if nothing else to know the true values.


We breathe the same air.


> Why is it an American interest to help the Chinese with their air pollution

To infect them all with the woke mind virus, so it takes hold and destroys their country.

War won without even a shot fired.


Woke is such an abused term that now it refers to the ideology of wanting… clean air.

If that’s woke then consider me wide awake.


I am pretty sure everyone on the planet has one or more values that overlap with a "woke" ideology - that mind virus gets everywhere.




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