China's Contradiction: World's Biggest Clean Energy Producer And Biggest Polluter? | Insight 

Also need to factor in the fact that China has a production-based economy that produces vast quantities of goods for the World, and the U.S. has a consumption-based economy that consumes goods and energy, so average Americans emit way more C02 for personal use than average Chinese.

Do not forget CNA is one of the media stooges paid by US.

The only fair way to measure is CUMULATIVE, PER CAPITA, AFTER TRANSFER. The West industrialized roughly 100 years before China did, and are responsible for the majority of the carbon released to date. China is a relative newcomer, and has produced far less overall. To restart measurement every year ignores ALL of the historical carbon that the West has released, in effect, rewarding the West for having already polluted the world. In addition, much of China's carbon is consumed by Westerners as imported products - that carbon should be credited back.

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Exactly. The term is "carbon footprint per citizen" and Westerners produce more pollutants than Chinese.

What aboutism + somehow planet cares if you produce by per capita...

​​@@VoidOfDarkness9you called this whataboutism? More like hitting the nail on the head lol if you were really cared about the environment, you'd advocate for either Western countries to drop their per capita emissions by half, or cull their populations by half to bring it down to the rest of the worlds levels. The true hypocrisy here is that you and the majority of your countrymen, are likely sitting in a air conditioned room typing this out while some of the world's biggest "emitters" have a huge chunk of the population who don't even have enough electricity to power a fan or portable heater

You made more sense than commenter. Has the world forgotten or intentionally forgotten about hi how china turns the desert into oasis and restored the blue sky and clean air.

Exactly, and well put! Global Warming heat pollution is due to CUMULATIVE carbon emissions since 1800, not since January 1st, 2023. The West is the primary cause of carbon emissions to date, and should be responsible for it.

there is no comparison to the hypocrisy of the western world

China's population is 4x the US. The big thing you miss is CUMULATIVE carbon emissions because Europe and the US industrialized roughly 100 years prior to China, so they have an additional 100 years of carbon emissions. Furthermore, China has a vast de-desertification / afforestation program that is capturing carbon, adding more than any other country in the world. In your example, the US has a huge mountain of waste in their backyard that keeps growing, while the Chinese family has a small pile of waste that is growing at a smaller rate.

Too much Chinese. This is a problem for the world. How can we solve it?

@@user-ug3rz4cu4sDon't worry, God will always be on the right side, remember vietnam war and korean war, 16 countries ganged up against China that just got out of it's civil war with no money, little ammunition, weapon and zero air power vs 16 countries. Guess whose side God was on? Remember the space station? Noone is allowed by the US to let China into the space program. Whose side God was on again? This is exactly why the truth/reality will always win, and it's always free lol. So yeah good luck with that kind of thinking 🤣hahaha🤣

@@user-ug3rz4cu4s how much of Indian？How can you solve it?

@@user-ug3rz4cu4snot anymore, Indian is!🤣🤣🤣🤣

No. What are the basis for that assumption. I am happy china is supplying the world with solar panels and wind turbines, but your claim is wild.

Moreover, all that China produces for the rest of the world... the pollution created via those exports should be added to those nations, for they're the end consumers.

So would the cost - China is not only vastly more efficient than the US at making things, they do so with far slimmer profit margins throughout the supply chain. Actually, the cost would probably triple if the item is a "luxury" or "necessity".

If all the products were made in US China would still be starving and the latest innovation would be a straw made pointy hat. Let's see. Before westernization of China it could brag about one child policy killing sparrows causing mass starvation, and useless production of low grade cast iron steel. After westernization China has enjoyed unprecedented economical growth. Makes you wonder.....

They surely don't... look the war in gaza

but the west couldn't care much about environment, only profit

Environment doesn't care about per capita retard

And out of 8.85 tons for China, 4 tons are used for industrial activities that produce goods for the rest of the world.

@@bpeng2000 that means the rest of the countries produce more good than china by your logic

@Sean-giang anything just to hate China 😅😊

@@Sean-giang No, it means that China is much more efficient. The US produces almost no goods, but burns a LOT of carbon due to its automobile-centric lifestyle. Chinese transportation is very heavily electric, so there's much less carbon emitted.

CUMULATIVE terms. Global warming didn't start this year. It started over 100 years ago when Europe and America first industrialized.

You clearly missed the intro of the video. You're great at ignoring Chinese criticism.

@@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle what exactly was missed?Because in reality in per capita terms and in cumulative terms China is doing pretty well

@@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle historic data for the past 300 years means the Western nations are by far the biggest polluters. China's the only developing country that is doing so much to reduce its emissions and reach carbon neutrality, while also being the biggest manufacturer of goods for the West, thereby helping to offset their emissions.

@@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicleseems you either were oblivious to his comment as per capital or you’re letting your personal anti-China feelings to show

plus most of the new tress are planted by china

And same with the country taiwan. Whatever china says is just little noise for them

@@Sean-giangthe name of the country is Republic of China, Taiwan is one of the islands governed by Republic of China. Taiwan relies heavily on imported coal to generate electricity.

@@ALWH1314 now located in taiwan 🇹🇼

​@@ALWH1314in your dream

Communists Chinese hasn't aquire a sense geography for the reasons that they constantly land grab neighbors Such a shameless behavior

Depends on your source, but in general per capita, China does have a lower CO2 emission, the difference though is the quality. Burning coal releases more pollution than natural gas (Coal produces a lot of ash, particulates, and sulphur by products). I hope China goes green faster than countries. They should take note and learn from the failures and success of other countries, without stumbling around in the dark. Starting late has its benefits since you can avoid the traps. All the other countries have already invested billions on the research, so they just need to reap the results. But yes, all countries should try to switch to renewable resources before we turn the earth into a toaster oven. Its not who is worse but how we can all make the world better.

​@@rebeltheharem7028the environment doesn't care about per capita. Pollution is pollution. China still pollutes more than the entire world

@@rebeltheharem7028 From what I read, China has been greening the desert, treating sewage, introducing plants and animals for more than 30 to 40 years. And every renewable energy technology, China is pretty much the leading producer of the world whether it is hydro, wind, solar, thermal and even nuclear. China of course also have HSR and other energy saving transportation. This is done by China on it own for awhile. You don't develop these technology overnight. And this is done on the background from lack of help from the western technology. And China is doing so without the need to move their pollution elsewhere. You have to remember the west move most of their manufacturing pollution out to developing country but now want to charge a green tax for pollution making stuff for them.

CO2 quantity and quality is the same throughout the whole world. You practically ignore per capita emission which US is almost double of China. @@rebeltheharem7028

@@rebeltheharem7028 Coal is 100% carbon, but natural gas is still mostly carbon, or it wouldn't be valuable as fuel. Chinese transportation is electrified mass transit, electric taxis and electric rideshare, supplemented by relatively few private vehicles, and Chinese EVs are now 40% of the market. US transportation is roughly 99% carbon due to gasoline & diesel automobiles dominating. China's energy grid is going renewable very quickly, now roughly 50% renewable by potential capacity, whereas America's energy grid adds renewables much slower. China is actually leading the advances in next-generation energy. China has High Voltage Transmission technology that nobody else has (to move energy from solar farms in the western desert to the eastern cities), along with wind turbines that are larger and more effective than anyone else. China leads in battery chemistry and production techniques, and also leads in photovoltaic cell technology. Also, China is the only country with a 4th Generation nuclear power plant in operation, is operating a Thorium molten salt reactor, and is constructing a small modular reactor. China is actually doing the big investments and reaping the rewards.

China just started operation of the world's first 4th Generation nuclear power plant at Shidaowan, and has small modular reactor under construction!

是的，我们叫第四代钍基熔岩堆技术。不仅可以用在核能发电方面，目前也用在造船行业。不久之前刚刚生产出了世界上最大的核动力远洋运输船。而不是核动力航母😁。

​@@ZweiZwolfthese brainwashed China haters will close their eyes n ears to all good things happening in China. Their only intentions is to distort information n play the blame game

A container ship using that nuclear reactor was launched in Shanghai recently.

It will take another 20 years and a gradual mindset change to work more on true foundational inventions. Using mostly other people's inventions, no matter how you improve on them and excel at implementation, is not tenable.

And build up gigantic ghost citys to keep figures up...

@@GangetFans China doesn't build "ghost cities". China is urbanizing by the millions, adding roughly 10 million new urban homes every year. This is planned ahead, pre-building cities and infrastructure that get filled in over time. They don't have extra cost retrofitting around existing people. Every single "ghost city" reported years ago is now thriving and populated. Don't push CIA fake news and misinformation.

​@@GangetFanswestern brainwashed bot

@@qiaoxiaoshan2051 far from even seen it myself 🙂

CNA is just western propaganda outlet. it is always trying to questions China in negative light. always

Why would you see it negatively? She is a journalist that have shown her professionalism by maintaining neutrality. Her report is objective and credible. As of now, China’s emissions is high, that’s factual and the media job is to report the facts to people, at the same time, she mentioned China’s initiatives to make changes and they have set a date where they would reached their goal. China should concentrate on the effort, results will prove China’s effort.

@@TheJayJayYoung Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the United States and Australia, the two countries with the largest per capita emissions, are sitting idly by and ignoring this problem. Worse, they even want to delay clean energy goals. So what do you think about that?

In the time to come, we will continue to see hypocrisy in the West.

The environment will be destroyed by Nuclear weapons before it is destroyed by Climate... Let us stop wars and then climate question will follow suit...

In Canada we believe that building houses at a massive rate is the way to go. So much for the forests. Need houses now. Sorry but immigration is so vital to prosperity of the rich that we really don't have time for green spaces. Go Capitalism!

Singapore media alway align with US.

Need to follow western agenda. Sad for the taxpayer paying for it. Most of the english report is to brainwash the people how good is the west , and how bad is the east.

For a long time, America decided what was right from wrong. They had the privilege to point out who they thought was good and who was bad. However, the world is waking up and beginning to see America's double standard.

Asian people are the majority of this planet population. They make up 59% that 4.7 billion people. African make about 17%, white make 19%. The rest are made of the other ethnicity. You should be blaming the rest of the asian.

How is america that 1/4 of the population of china somehow need 4x the products? Even if you combine the western who are white it only about 15%+ compare to asian 60% world population. African make around 15+%. You are aware east asian country and other nation like japan indian veitnam buy from china so why do we western get blame. You are a m0r0n.

Well said, instead of urging China to reduce pollution, we should urge Western to consume less and stop the waste

中国发展最大的经验就是放下骄傲 ，从低端产业慢慢发展到中高端产业慢慢爬升， 这个过程会被各种声音批评 ， 那就做好自己应该做的事情就好 ，不要在乎各种声音， 只要今天的自己比昨天更好 就行了 。

@@zobenny8290我认同，用成绩证明自己。

China will have hit Peak Oil by this time next year. China is electrifying so fast, 40% of all cars sold are plug-in. Their busses and taxis are already electric. Electric tractors and trucks are coming fast! Within 10 years, China's transportation network could be almost entirely electric, so the only oil and gas they use would be for aircraft, large ships, and long distance trucking.

需要石油啊，石油是非常好的化工原料，只是用于燃烧太浪费了。现在70%的石油用于生产，30%的石油提炼成汽油、柴油、重油、航空煤油等进行燃烧驱动机械运动。

The qualities of it is poor. Have you sen tbe tofu dreg project and the fake food they make. Or using chemical on a dry meat to meat it look fresh but it actually expire?

Nope, what your info from Falun Gong and Wion medias.@@BookOfMoon1

@@BookOfMoon1 You mean like the New York apartment that just collapsed? Also, America is the one with the most processed Frankenfood - China is still getting their meat and vegetables fresh from the market, butcher, fishmonger.

​@@BookOfMoon1The coal fleet efficiency in China is way higher than in the West. The least efficient coal burning power stations in China are more efficient than the most efficient in the USA. The most efficient plant in China, Wai Gao Qiao Unit 3, is the most efficient on earth, with 47.5% thermal efficiency.

@@gregorymalchuk272 that china own state report figures? China say that Japan release radiation water from 12 years ago will severely affect the sea life. Yet jt people test out that radiation and it a as higher than what it own government claim. More efficient you say? Yet ignore all the water pollution. So coal efficient that it polluted the city that they had to prohibited products that rely on coal for more than a week during the Olympics to clear the sky .

"agree on that but the U.S. has had an orchestrated anti-China campaign officially started by the Obama administration in 2011 (less than 2 yrs after China was the largest buyer of U.S. treasury [junk] bonds only next to Japan). Which started due to Xinjiang surpassing the U.S. in cotton and becoming the worlds cotton exporter. The Obama administration needed to come up with an accusation to apply sanctions. So they made up the Uyghur BS. That has since broaden into just about everything China does because the U.S. can no longer compete let alone keep up. So it's been one U.S. accusation after another. The U.S. needs to vilify China at every challenge to keep (threaten/bully/ bribe) US vassal states to stay in line. The reality is there's nothing the U.S. can do to stop China's progress nor the U.S. decline. In the next couple years China will be far enough ahead that the U.S. won't be able to catch or keep up. Many U.S. vassal allie states will switch to China for the interest and benefits of their own nations. Same goes for Europe with Russia, starting with Germany who will re-start negotiations to repair and restart the NS pipelines folowed by France. China, Russia along with BRICS will be the new global leaders before the end of this decade." when someone whistle blows violations of someone else, that is not the fault of the whistle blower, but of the one who committed those violations. Remember that. You are getting things confused. Your comment is incorrect. Uyghur information is disinformation, Germany and France NS pipeline restart is misinformation, BRICS may or may not even happen. I can explain why later. I will explain later why you are misinformed.

RU-vid will not allow me to communicate under the comment thread that you made this comment, so I had to switch to a different thread.

@@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle no sorry buddy the only one confused seems to be you. BRICS is already established and growing (there are over 40 countries wanting to join and another 50 or so who want to be affiliated with it) as it is right now BRICS members include the majority of the worlds energy / minerals / gold nations in its membership. BRICS has surpassed the G7 GDP, BRICS hold the worlds largest oil / mineral reserves required for the future. The U.S. and Europe are in decline and soon will be buried in their own debt with no nations to bail them out (2009). The U.S. is crippled to compete in the global 21st century with its outdated, aging, deteriorating infrastructure, a poorly educated unskilled populace still stuck in the 20th century, and thanks to its over-bloated, over-extended, over-costly, aging, hi-maintenance, undermanned out dated military that has eaten up the U.S. economic future, the U.S. is ill-prepared to compete (as is europe). Todays China is well prepared for the globalized 21st century (ports, rail, airports, roads, economic structure, global investments (unlike U.S. China build the U.S. destroys, no future in destruction). As the U.S. declines and deteriorates, Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, Middle East, are all signing deals with China for their future (trade, commerce, investments, development and large scale infrastructure projects). BRICS will have their global banking system completed by the end of this year, which will expedite the global dumping of the dollar as well as a rush to unload any U.S. treasury bonds before they’re not worth much. As the U.S. economy starts to fail the entitled self absorbed American people will lose it there’ll be a societal breakdown of violence (500million guns in public hands), crime-rise, racial issues, business failures, unemployment, foreclosures, repos, civil unrest/riots, bank failures as no countries are coming to bail out (2009). The new global leaders will be China and Russia (BRICS). The U.S. will have painted itself into a corner unable to afford itself or manage as Americans loose their sh*t. Biden /US think creating a three prong proxy world war (Europe/Russia, Israel/ Iran, Taiwan-Asia pacific/China will help it cling to its 20th century past halcyon days. By having its competitor countries fight and cause destruction while the U.S. sits on the sidelines orchestrating it all and it’s society is left untouched (ww2) is delusional. Unlike WW2 today there are hypersonic weapons that can hit any programmed target anywhere in the world including the U.S.. but even aside from that China is 26% if all US imports, that’s over one fourth of our entire economic supply chain. Once that gets cut off the economic crisis the U.S. will be thrown into will be catastrophic. We are living thru the end of the US(Euro-West) 20th century imperial hegemony. PS: you need broaden your sources of info beyond US /EUROPEAN MEDIA. You seem very poorly informed about the world we’re in. There are facts to everything I stated invest some time into all this and you’ll see who’s the misinformed one. Here’s a partial list of my sources: Ex-CIA analysts: Larry Johnson/ Ray Mc Govern. Military analysts: Douglas Mac Gregor, Scott Ritter, Brian Berletic, Andrew Bacevich, Richard Black. Retired U.S. ambassador to Russia Chaz Freeman. Ex-secretary of defense. Geopolitical prof. Jeffery Sachs/ John Mearsheimer/ Richard Wolfe/ Michael Hudson. And dozens others who have/are studying todays global world.

@@jvs333 Like I said, it may or may not happen. I'm not confused, just a realist. Don't ignore the part where I said "may" ..... I would really like to converse with you more, but RU-vid is not allowing any of my comments. I am not confused, I just don't have much time to respond with information I have gained over the last 2 years consistently. *"Biden /US think creating a three prong proxy world war (Europe/Russia, Israel/ Iran, Taiwan-Asia pacific/China will help it cling to its 20th century past halcyon days. By having its competitor countries fight and cause destruction while the U.S. sits on the sidelines orchestrating it all and it’s society is left untouched (ww2) is delusional.* *Unlike WW2 today there are hypersonic weapons that can hit any programmed target anywhere in the world including the U.S.. but even aside from that China is 26% if all US imports, that’s over one fourth of our entire economic supply chain. Once that gets cut off the economic crisis the U.S. will be thrown into will be catastrophic.* *We are living thru the end of the US(Euro-West) 20th century imperial hegemony.* *PS: you need broaden your sources of info beyond US /EUROPEAN MEDIA.* *You seem very poorly informed about the world we’re in. There are facts to everything I stated invest some time into all this and you’ll see who’s the misinformed one."* The United States is not creating anything. China chooses to threaten Taiwan, and Russia chose to invade Ukraine. Yet I am misinformed? That is blatantly false. Hypersonic weapons were invented in WWII. The V-2 rocket was made during WWII. modern hypersonic weapons have been in testing since the early 2000s by the U.S. and Australia before Russia and China, one of them being my profile picture. I **seem** poorly informed, because I respond at bad times for making my responses and RU-vid deletes long drawn out comments made by me that I do not copy and paste, because I don't expect them to delete the comments.

@@jvs333 "Biden /US think creating a three prong proxy world war (Europe/Russia, Israel/ Iran, Taiwan-Asia pacific/China will help it cling to its 20th century past halcyon days." That is false. They aren't created by the U.S. China wants to invade Taiwan. Russia invaded Ukraine. The idea that it is the fault of the U.S. would mean that the U.S. would be the invader. Don't blame others for your own actions.

是的，除了视频中所展示的这些清洁能源方式之外，中国的水电、海上风电的规模也巨大。

19-8-2023 U$A imposxs 245% tarxffs on 5 Southeast Asian solxr panxl companies Vina Solar -Vietnam Trina Solar -Thailand Canadian Solar - Thailand BYD Hong Kong -Cambodia New East Solar -Cambodia

在具体实施过程中有很多复杂的问题，主要是利益问题。这涉及到传统火力发电企业、输送电电网公司、储能公司、以及各个省之间的利益分配，反正很复杂就是了。中国也是用了很多年才慢慢解决这个问题。

Capitalists are unwilling to make early investments because this is a long cost recovery process. China is different, the government can bear this risk

Not only China. For the whole world , if western people uphold every human on earth has equal rights.

western countries polluted earth over 200 years didn't pay the check, now simply blaim developing countries is polluting

They are too busy building their economy unlike the West.😂😂

Per capita carbon emissions and per capita carbon footprint are all very simple mathematical problems. Do you think those Westerners don’t understand? It's just that they have a conspiracy in mind

不要用英文回答他们为什么。连chatgpt都不舍得用一下，完全靠臆想，无知并且不去求知是它们最为致命的缺陷。

ffs as if there's no trash in your country's river?

look closer. It's not a river. looks like a construction site after raining

Just like you😄

Yup, Bharat rural area does better.

Garbage sorting is not practiced in most places in China, and even if there are garbage sorting bins, garbage pickup trucks will mix them all into one vehicle. But there will be many people who leave valuable items (plastic bottles, cartons, cans) and sell them. When you take your trash outside your home, there are retired people who come to recycle bottles, paper boxes, and metal cans and sell them for money. There are people on the street who pay to recycle what they can. When the waste is transferred to the disposal station, some of the disposal stations will have employees to sift through the waste and screen out the valuable things in it.

The most advanced ones with AI scanning