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Claim: Chinese Dismiss Climate Issues as Elitist, “Western Values”
« on: September 18, 2025, 08:43:11 am »
Claim: Chinese Dismiss Climate Issues as Elitist, “Western Values”
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Essay by Eric Worrall

… there is a widespread suspicion and resistance toward what are perceived as “elite discourses” …

To make the climate issue resonate in China, root it in local realities

Climate discourse must connect with jobs, security and everyday life if it is to win public support.

By Tan Hao
Sept. 17, 2025

A few months ago, Chinese student Jiang Yurong’s commencement speech at Harvard University ignited a heated debate on the Chinese internet.

Her remarks emphasised diversity, humanity and globalism. They were met with ridicule back home, with some criticising them as empty and self-righteous. Others accused her of promoting so-called “Western values”. In the context of today’s tense international geopolitics, she was even portrayed as a spokesperson for American interests.

Like many online controversies, the discussion soon faded. But the deeper problem it reflected has not gone away. In China’s public sphere, there is a widespread suspicion and resistance toward what are perceived as “elite discourses”.

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Re: Claim: Chinese Dismiss Climate Issues as Elitist, “Western Values”
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2025, 08:44:16 am »
Just a few months ago, wasn't the MSM bragging up China as leaders in saving the world from climate change? :yowsa:
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Re: Claim: Chinese Dismiss Climate Issues as Elitist, “Western Values”
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2025, 10:12:51 am »
The Chi-coms' "elite discourses" comment is right on the mark.

The Chi-coms are a totalitarian Maoist Communist regime who would imprison most of the Global Climate Change types in forced labor camps.
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Re: Claim: Chinese Dismiss Climate Issues as Elitist, “Western Values”
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2025, 10:18:44 am »


But there is no smog in Beijing. The Government said so...
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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Re: Claim: Chinese Dismiss Climate Issues as Elitist, “Western Values”
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2025, 11:06:59 am »
Wait I thought the Chicoms were the ones behind all the climate hysteria and decarbonizaion in the west, all while ignoring it all themselves and building many coal fired generating plants? All the climate BS is justma marketing ploy for achicom solar and wind turbine sales. The bonus is crippling energy costs in the West.
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Re: Claim: Chinese Dismiss Climate Issues as Elitist, “Western Values”
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2025, 11:15:43 am »
Commies will be commies.
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