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In Part II of their Choking on Growth series, the New York Times takes on the issue of water, or the lack thereof, in China: For three decades, water has been indispensable in sustaining the rollicking economic expansion that has made China a world power. Now, China’s galloping, often wasteful style of economic growth is […]
Read MoreChris O’Brien at Beijing Newspeak looks at how the official media will cover the Three Gorges Dam, since dam officials have now acknowledged that the project could create an environmental “catastrophe”: After years of positive spinning, the central leadership has come as clean as the Yangtze River was about 100 years ago about the environmental […]
Read MoreAP reports that Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Project will play at the opening of the Special Olympics in Shanghai next month: Over the subsequent 10 days, Ma and his more than dozen colleagues will give concerts and workshops in Suzhou, Hong Kong and at Beijing’s Forbidden City, performing some of the songs on […]
Read MoreThe U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency reports that 99% of illegal steroids are made from drugs originating in China: Federal authorities said yesterday that they had exposed a sprawling underground distribution network for steroids, human growth hormone and other illicit bodybuilding drugs supplied by 37 companies in China. The operation revealed a much wider, more diffuse […]
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