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China - Globalization and Organized Irresponsibility, some serious implications

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For the last two decades or so China (or actually, the less than one percent of its population, the newly super-rich) has been perhaps the most dramatic beneficiary from the fast globalization. Meanwhile, China's break-neck type of development is a thing that comes at the expense of fast-pace degrading of not only the natural environment of its own territory, but also now increasingly on a global scale. This should be addressed in the trade issues perhaps the only area in international affairs where national government has real and effective power to bargain with its trade counterpart nation's government.

Scenario one
"No sector better illustrates the vast reach and explosive impacts of China's manufacturing dominance than loggin ...the planet's deforestation problem is largely one of illicit logging, and China is the world's leading importer of illegally logged wood."
Scenario two
"China now ...the world's leading producer of border-crossing dust Each year, they blow ...several tens of millions of tons as far as the western Pacific Ocean, 7,000 miles away. Satellites tracked the dust as it moved across ...In less than a week, it crossed the Pacific Ocean, and produced thick haze as far east as Denver. High concentrations of dust were found as far away as Maine and Georgia ...
(Cited from Jacques Leslie, December 10, 2007, http://www.motherjones.com/toc /2008/01/index.html)
The doomsday proportion of pollutions that continues to decimate the Chinese soil (for example, the face-pace degradation of the water supply all over China) is bringing on the future un-sustainability of China's own food supplies, and hence is to eventually stress the world's total capacity of food supply.

With such scenarios going on, China's current political regime is expropriating the rights to a sustainable future of this planet, away from every human being on earth. In many ways this (ultimately) violates what's in the United Nations Charter about the basic human rights.
The US government should hold the Chinese government accountable in this startling pollution and environmental degradation that China is now emanating to the whole world, by the leverage of administrative discretion - to put China's privileged trade status with the US under annual review.
By the wholesale and unaccountable ripping off of the environment on a global scale (meanwhile the ripping off of the slave-class

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