Zhaohua Li is an American-born independent journalist based in Beijing. He has written on Asia for the Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle and Frommer's guidebooks, among other publications. He is currently also a Blakemore-Freeman fellow in Chinese language studies at Tsinghua University. His interests in China run from the energy and the environment to media and pop culture.
Seizures of Chinese farmland for real estate developments may have another–and, in some ways, more far-reaching–consequence besides simply sparking unrest in the countryside. Or so says one expert. From AFP: Potatoes, which can grow in dry areas not suitable for rice, are now being seriously looked at as a way to get more food from […]
Read MoreA new study adds to already heavy skepticism over China’s plans to put biofuels at the center of its ambitious alternative energy strategy. From AFP: China and India, expected to account for nearly 70 percent of global oil demand between now and 2030, are using cheaper biofuels derived from crops to help power their economies, […]
Read MoreSlovenia’s favorite philosophical son turns his iconoclastic eye on the Chinese government’s much-discussed new rule that puts management of Buddhist reincarnation in officials’ hands. From the New York Times’ Op-Ed page: Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the Chinese government is not antireligious. Its stated worry is social “harmony” ” the political dimension of religion. In […]
Read MoreCaijing’s English edition takes a long, detailed–and ultimately very skeptical–look at the prognosis for clean skies during the Olympics: Beijing officials predicted good fortune on August 8 – exactly one year before the games begin – when the city recorded an air quality index of 88. For the Chinese, eight is a lucky number. But […]
Read MoreThe International Iron and Steel Industry Institute, a research organization funded by the steel industry itself, says China now produces the world’s highest levels of steel-related greenhouse gases. From Bloomberg: China now produces about 51 percent of all carbon emissions from steelmakers worldwide, according to a statement released today in Berlin by the institute during […]
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