Does sequestering what has been emitted count as geoengineering? If not, that too; if so, then surely the status quo of emitting it is already geoengineering?
But, as I noted in another comment, it's misleading since China has absorbed so much manufacturing for other countries, a lot of those products end up in your hands after you get it from Amazon Prime.
Yes, China's 1.4 billion citizens divided by their number 1 status as a carbon emitter, means that they produce less co2 than the USAs 345 million divided by it's (relatively) lower total emissions.
But as I pointed out, there is likely misleading: the US (and other nations) buy lots of goods from China effectively shifting coal emissions from the US to China by having them made there.
If the US were purchasing 100% US made goods, per capita co2 in the US might be much much higher
China is essentially importing ~1 GT of emissions, and the USA is essentially exporting 0.56 GT of emissions.
The USA would emit about 10% more and China about 10% less if all manufacturing was local; but that would mean the USA per capita emissions would go up to 16.5 tons per capita from 14.9, while the Chinese per capita emissions would go down to about 7.2 from about 8 tons per capita. (Assuming I read the charts correctly).
I aver that none of this matters either, because all of us need to get down to "approximately none" and this kind of thing is just playing a nationalist version of the "no you" game.
I guess it's time for the US to kick it's Chinese import addiction, in which it shifts it's addiction to cheap foreign (Chinese) labor fueled by 'clean' coal, and then works to whittle it's own emissions problems down to zero by whatever means necessary.
