[edoo]

One of the primary reasons it is cheaper to build in China is they do not enforce pollution laws. We outlawed destroying the environment and all our friendly harmless corporations just moved production to where it is de facto legal. If we are not hypocrites we should be rejecting any products not built to our environmental standards.

[baybal2]

No, have bothered to google for 5 minutes to check that zero enforcement was not the case for at least a decade?

[edoo]

No doubt there is some enforcement but it could get a lot better and still be a disaster. They need a zero tolerance policy backed up by jail time. I was in China 2 years ago and the Beijing air was gross and half the people were wearing surgical masks. In one part a few hundred miles from Beijing I experienced eye watering choking pollution hazes with 100m visibility that lasted for several hours. It was literally scary pollution.