From the International Herald Tribune (link):
President Hu Jintao’s recent admission that China may be growing too fast, at the expense of the environment, has once again raised questions about the role of resource conservation in development.
It is significant that Hu’s statement was made during a meeting with a former Taiwanese opposition leader, Lien Chan. A composite environmental performance index developed by Yale University has ranked Taiwan two places ahead of the United States in its environmental performance, whereas China was ranked 70 places below Taiwan.
As China struggles with its environmental woes, there are many lessons that China can learn from Taiwan about green growth. And exchanges of clean technologies and environmental knowledge between these two rivals might also lay a path to peace.
