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.
It appears not every bit of environmental news out of China bespeaks disaster. A new report from Forest Trends, an NGO, credits Chinese willingness to use recycled waste paper with the salvation of millions of tons’ worth of forests worldwide: “Just last year, China’s use of waste-paper instead of trees to make paper products probably […]
Read MoreFirst dumplings filled with cardboard, now this: According to the Shenzhen Jing newspaper, a peddler was robbed of his motorcycle and his load of 125kg of pork.He was on his way to a market in Shenzhen, which lies on the border of Hong Kong. The suspects rushed from a minibus and threatened him with a […]
Read MoreA different take on exchange rate and trade deficit reality from two experts writing in the Christian Science Monitor: It’s true that low-wage Chinese workers have taken jobs from Americans and that cheap Chinese imports have pumped up the trade deficit. But three other factors explain the state of US-Chinese trade: ‚Ä¢The low savings rate […]
Read MoreA long-time China watcher argues that worldwide shock over tainted Chinese food exports is symptomatic of outsiders’ willful naivete in the face of Chinese growth: Why does this surprise us? After all, “capitalism with Chinese characteristics” has been a chaotic free-for-all for some time. Roughly 75% of China’s food is now produced by small, private, […]
Read MoreWith China’s top food administrator barely cold in his grave after being executed for gross neglect of duty and Beijing calling for a clean-up of the nation’s toothpaste industry, the International Herald Tribune offers an alternative to the hysteria over tainted Chinese exports: Black pepper with salmonella from India. Crabmeat from Mexico that is too […]
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