OPINION_ How China is ruining oceans and stealing rivers

WASHINGTON EXAMINER




How China is ruining oceans and stealing rivers


by Tom Rogan, Commentary Writer | | September 04, 2020 06:15 AM


There are few better examples of Chinese president Xi Jinping's disdain for the world than his approach to water.

Yes, water, H₂O, the lifeblood of human civilization and all natural life on Earth.

Xi likes to offer parables in support of his commitment to the natural environment. But when it comes to water, as with Xi's approach to carbon emissions, China's president offers only hot air and a lot of pollution.

Let's start with Beijing's treatment of the oceans. Each year, hundreds of thousands of Chinese fishing vessels dredge their way through the oceans, hoovering up all the marine wildlife they can find. Using nets that make little or no distinction between fish and other endangered marine wildlife such as sharks and dolphins, these fleets are a piscicidal menace. Chinese fishing fleets care nothing about sustainability, only saturating their own greed. But it gets worse. Reflecting Beijing's imperial and absurd claims of sovereignty over the near entirety of the South China Sea, these fishing fleets like to ignore other nations' exclusive economic zones. A notable example, here, comes in the form of the hundreds of Chinese vessels that frequently descend on the endangered species of the Galapagos Islands. Another case in point is the situation of West African fishermen, who have found their livelihoods gradually eliminated by the Chinese fleets. When challenged on these points, Beijing says it is being treated unfairly.

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China's sympathizers in the West like to play to the ruling Communist Party's victimhood narrative. They argue that Beijing is only aggressive because of the imperial pains it suffered at the hands of Western powers. That today, China simply seeks a mutually beneficial coexistence with world nations. That China wants to grow in power, but take others along with it. Xi's war of annihilation on the world's oceans speaks to a different and far more painful reality.

Standing with impoverished farmers and small nations, America can lead at its best.

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