{"id":953714,"date":"2021-11-02T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T16:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=953714"},"modified":"2021-11-02T12:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T16:59:07","slug":"china-dismisses-greta-thunberg-as-uneducated-for-calling-out-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-dismisses-greta-thunberg-as-uneducated-for-calling-out-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"China Dismisses Greta Thunberg as Uneducated for Calling Out Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-dismisses-greta-thunberg-as-uneducated-for-calling-out-beijing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=953714&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The Chinese government newspaper&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> insultingly urged climate change celebrity Greta Thunberg to seek \u201ca better education\u201d on Monday after the Swedish teen listed pressuring China to cease being the world\u2019s worst polluter as \u201cnot the least\u201d of her concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Thunberg noted China\u2019s spree of coal plant building in an interview with the BBC broadcast Monday, calling China\u2019s coal policy \u201cout of touch with reality.\u201d The activist arrived in Glasgow, Scotland, that day to protest the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). In a fiery speech outside the event, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/environment\/2021\/11\/01\/greta-thunberg-rips-leaders-for-whatever-the-fk-they-are-doing-in-there-at-climate-summit\/\">demanded<\/a> politicians stop \u201cwhatever the fuck they\u2019re doing in there\u201d and focus instead on tangible solutions to what she has called a climate \u201ccrisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Chinese dictator Xi Jinping did not attend the event, instead,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/environment\/2021\/11\/01\/xi-jinping-scolds-world-on-climate-change-while-china-keeps-polluting\/\">hectoring<\/a> participants in a speech from Beijing to improve their green records while promising China would continue to increase carbon emissions for nearly another decade.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18296810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pooh.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18296810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pooh.jpeg\" alt=\"Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution which overthrew the Qing Dynasty and led to the founding of the Republic of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 9, 2021. (Noel Celis\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution, which overthrew the Qing Dynasty and led to the founding of the Republic of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 9, 2021. (Noel Celis\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/politics\/cop26-greta-thunberg-it-is-never-too-late-to-take-action-against-climate-change-3439209\">interview<\/a> with the BBC\u2019s Andrew Marr, Thunberg admitted she found it challenging that, regarding global pollution, \u201cyou can always blame someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it\u2019s always someone that\u2019s bigger than you that you can blame on. And that\u2019s why it\u2019s more important that we need to work together internationally and globally to make sure that everyone does this transition,\u201d Thunberg said. \u201cNot the least, pushing China, who are still building coal \u2013 coal power plants, which today is quite out of touch with reality if you ask me.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Marr had specifically asked her about China\u2019s deplorable pollution record. China is the world\u2019s most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/resources\/each-countrys-share-co2-emissions\">prolific<\/a> carbon emitter. In 2020, China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/02\/03\/china-built-three-times-as-much-coal-power-in-2020-as-the-rest-of-the-world-combined\/\">increased<\/a> its coal capacity by three times more than the entire rest of the world combined. Last month, in response to skyrocketing coal prices, China\u2019s National Development and Reform Commission reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/10\/21\/climate-change-china-launches-all-out-coal-production-campaign\/\">ordered<\/a> the country\u2019s mine operators to \u201cproduce as much coal as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the interview, Thunberg criticized politicians for global fears that transitioning away from fossil fuels towards unproven \u201cgreen\u201d technology could cause an economic disaster.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-hwwEjo sc-kPVwWT bmgGRv markup\" readability=\"17\">\n<p>\u201cOf course, we understand. And that\u2019s just the fact that there\u2019s that kind of fear is just a clear sign that we have not been handling the climate crisis in the way it should,\u201d Thunberg said, referring to those concerns, \u201cbecause the way we need to [do that] is that no one gets left behind, and that the people are being taken care of. So of course, that\u2019s, that\u2019s a sign of failure from the politicians\u2019 side.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> published an infuriated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202111\/1237851.shtml\">column<\/a> on Monday, attacking Marr for asking Thunberg about China at all and dismissing Thunberg as uneducated, a common insult from Chinese media referencing Thunberg\u2019s campaign, \u201cFridays for Future,\u201d which encourages students to skip school in protest of climate policy. China is home to only one internationally known participant in Fridays for Future \u2013 activist Ou Hongyi, arrested in 2020 for attempting to organize a protest against China\u2019s excessive pollution. Thunberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/10\/01\/greta-thunberg-embraces-chinese-dissidents-arrested-environmentalism\/\">sent<\/a> a message of \u201csolidarity and gratitude\u201d to Ou at the time, again outraging China.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12763882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1200760956.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12763882\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1200760956.jpg\" alt=\"BEIJING, CHINA - FEBRUARY 13: A Chinese man wears a protective mask as he stands near the CCTV building in fog and pollution during rush hour in the central business district on February 13, 2020 in Beijing, China. The number of cases of the deadly new coronavirus COVID-19 rose to more than 52000 in mainland China Thursday, in what the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global public health emergency. China continued to lock down the city of Wuhan in an effort to contain the spread of the pneumonia-like disease which medicals experts have confirmed can be passed from human to human. In an unprecedented move, Chinese authorities have maintained and in some cases tightened the travel restrictions on the city which is the epicentre of the virus and also in municipalities in other parts of the country affecting tens of millions of people. The number of those who have died from the virus in China climbed to over 1300 on Thursday, mostly in Hubei province, and cases have been reported in other countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, India, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and several others. The World Health Organization has warned all governments to be on alert and screening has been stepped up at airports around the world. Some countries, including the United States, have put restrictions on Chinese travellers entering and advised their citizens against travel to China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Chinese man wears a protective mask as he stands near the CCTV building in fog and pollution during rush hour in the central business district on February 13, 2020, in Beijing, China. (Kevin Frayer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThunberg, who skipped school for so-called climate protests at 15, has been portrayed as a devoted environmentalist in the West. She is a pretty good tool to divert public attention from the fact that the West is not doing enough to curb emissions,\u201d the <em>Times<\/em> concluded. \u201cShe was nicknamed by Chinese netizens\u2019 selective environmental activist\u2019 and a \u2018puppet\u2019 of Western politicians after she blamed China for the global climate crisis while turning a blind eye to Japan\u2019s decision to dump nuclear wastewater in May.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chinese \u201cnetizens\u201d are social media users who parrot Communist Party talking points on Chinese websites, then used to claim popular support for these talking points. Contrary to the&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em> affirmation, Thunberg has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gretathunberg\/status\/1381880252465577984?lang=en\">highlighted<\/a> Japan\u2019s plans to release nuclear wastewater into the ocean from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and supportively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=387150291967903\">shared<\/a> footage of climate protests in Japan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThunberg needs a better education and more knowledge to avoid being exploited by the West in its attempt to mislead public opinion,\u201d the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> concluded of the teen activist.<\/p>\n<p>The column also included some unsubstantiated defenses of China\u2019s poor climate record, such as the claim that \u201cglobal warming is mainly caused by developed countries including the U.K.\u201d and that, given China\u2019s usurpation of much of the world\u2019s industrial output through its factories and slave labor facilities, \u201cChina is taking some shares of carbon emissions that should be counted as part of other countries\u2019 emissions.\u201d Neither are claims supported by mainstream climate science given the percentage of greenhouse gases China is responsible for, the fact that the emissions counted are released within China\u2019s borders, and the fact that the Communist Party has a stranglehold on Chinese company practices that do not exist in the free world.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Thunberg has spent the vast majority of her brief career in activism protesting the climate policy of her native Europe and the United States, rather than focusing on major polluters like China and India. She has condemned Beijing in the past, however, infuriating state propagandists. In May, Thunberg criticized China for using its status as a \u201cdeveloping\u201d nation \u2013 despite having the second-largest economy in the world \u2013 to demand other countries implement stricter limits on emissions while refusing to do so itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, China is still categorized as a developing nation by WTO [World Trade Organization] \u2026 But that\u2019s of course no excuse for ruining future and present living conditions,\u201d Thunberg <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GretaThunberg\/status\/1390676195352719364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1390676195352719364%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D18563274action%3Dedit\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.328571428571\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes, China is still categorized as a developing nation by WTO, they manufacture a lot of our products and so on.<br \/>But that&#8217;s of course no excuse for ruining future and present living conditions. We can&#8217;t solve the climate crisis unless China drastically changes course.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MindTheGap?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MindTheGap<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/00oV6uuvYE\">https:\/\/t.co\/00oV6uuvYE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GretaThunberg\/status\/1390676195352719364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> similarly attacked Thunberg then, stating she was a poor role model for young people for \u201cskipping school\u201d in Fridays for Future protests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is short of sufficient academic knowledge study, and lack of sound self-judgment capability. Girl like her [sic] is prone to be affected or even manipulated by some political forces,\u201d the newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/environment\/2021\/05\/10\/china-mocks-greta-thunberg-for-criticism\/\">asserted<\/a>&nbsp;at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Thunberg has elicited outrage from Beijing in the past for taking stances independent of the climate change debate, as well. Thunberg has maintained a public friendship with Joshua Wong, one of Hong Kong\u2019s most prominent pro-democracy leaders who also began his career as an activist as a teenager. Thunberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/10\/20\/state-media-chinese-netizens-call-greta-thunberg-clown-hong-kong-support\/\">wrote<\/a> a blurb featured in Wong\u2019s book&nbsp;<em>Unfree Speech<\/em> and has endorsed his campaigns urging China to respect the human rights of Hong Kong residents.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.099730458221\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;12&#8221; is more than just a number.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been nominated by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuawongcf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@joshuawongcf<\/a> to join this campaign. Post a picture of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SAVE12?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SAVE12<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SAVE12HKYOUTHS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SAVE12HKYOUTHS<\/a> and tag 3 friends to spread the word.<\/p>\n<p>I nominate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Luisamneubauer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Luisamneubauer<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NakabuyeHildaF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NakabuyeHildaF<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jamie_Margolin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jamie_Margolin<\/a> to join.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/save12hkyouths?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@save12hkyouths<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GpgShLaAav\">https:\/\/t.co\/GpgShLaAav<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VihzeCMiCC\">pic.twitter.com\/VihzeCMiCC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GretaThunberg\/status\/1317361869179551749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wong is currently a political prisoner in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635933815480000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHShPrGdbmmrA1BMiuetrG00Ja2Hg\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635933815480000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF5XZaSkwFk2jkJKrYicTUO9g3y2w\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government newspaper\u00a0Global Times insultingly urged climate change celebrity Greta Thunberg to seek \u201ca better education\u201d on Monday after the Swedish teen listed pressuring China to cease being the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}