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.
Writing in the Belfast Telegraph, former Hong Kong-based journalist and Trusted Sources‘ China editor Jonathan Fenby takes on the argument, widespread after China’s recent climb to the top of the greenhouse gas pyramid, that Western economies bear responsibility for the country’s greenhouse emissions: Proponents of Western guilt add that the developed countries should stump up […]
Read MoreThe Financial Times reveals China’s push for environmental transparency only goes so far: Beijing engineered the removal of nearly a third of a World Bank report on pollution in China because of concerns that findings on premature deaths could provoke “social unrest”. The report, produced in co-operation with Chinese government ministries over several years, found […]
Read MoreAs China celebrates the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong’s hand-over, Xinhua announces the People’s Liberation Army is undergoing a sartorial makeover. From UPI: China’s military has ditched its baggy and sometimes mismatched uniforms in favor of a snazzy new look that includes rakish berets… The upgraded uniforms, dubbed “07 Style” allow the enlisted personnel to […]
Read MoreThe New York Times wades into the US-China trade dispute over tainted seafood with a report from an eel factory in Guangzhou’s Taishan region. For those who’ve missed the story so far, the FDA recently banned certain Chinese seafood imports on account of high levels of carcinogens and antibiotics: Here in the Pearl River Delta […]
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