“…higher greenhouse gas emissions…”
THAT’S what you’re worried about??
SMDH Idiots. That’s the least of our problems. In fact it may not be a problem at all, as global warming and an increase in carbon dioxide actually improves conditions for plant (ie food) growth. Anyway…
Surprisingly or maybe not surprisingly, China and the U.S. are aligned on this issue because we buy all the shit they make and they are a net importer of agricultural products, around a third of their food is imported according to my quick morning google-fu, and a majority of that is from the West i.e. U.S. and Canada’s vast grain fields.
Problems in the Suez Canal will badly hurt both our countries but China much more as they will literally starve while we will have hyperinflation due to rocketing fuel costs and supply chain disruption but we should be able to ramp up manufacturing to keep our harvesters running, while the Chinese will be scrambling to collect bugs to eat.
So maybe the U.S. and China need to jointly bomb Iran back into the Stone Age.
you are assuming that the mainland chinese government cares even one tiny bit about the population.
and I'm confident that various groups will try appeasement again and again and again...