[coldtea]

Milking the western economic structure?

China doesn't operate as some charity receiver for the west.

In fact it's the opposite, the west uses china for its hard labor and manufacturing tasks, and gets back products at a cheaper rate than itself can produce.

There's no "world's willingless to fund it" involved, there's that the world pays China $20 and gets back goods it packages and resells to its people (e.g. from Apple to Lacoste) as $50 and $100 goods.

[djsumdog]

And at great cost. It's an easy way to offset environmental devastation. Granted it's localized in China to some specific areas, but those areas are polluted to the point of destruction.