Increased trade with China could worsen global environmental issues

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Increased trade with China could worsen global environmental issues

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Improve relations with China

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Beijing has implemented policies to reduce emissions and plans to become carbon neutral by 2060

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China is the world’s top emitter, producing more than a quarter of the world’s annual greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to climate change.
A study published in the Environmental Impact Assessment Review in January 2023 found that the reallocation of products and services to the rest of the world caused by the cessation of U.S.-China trade will increase global emissions by 0.3%-1.8%.
In the past ten years, China has emitted more greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, per year than any other country in the world. It surpassed the United States as the top emitter in 2005, according to Climate Watch. (Emissions per capita in the United States are still more than double those in China.)
China’s economic rise—national gross domestic product (GDP) grew 10 percent on average each year for more than a decade—has greatly accelerated its emissions.

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Arguments against improving trade relations with China

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US-China trade relations

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China Relations

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Improve relations with China

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