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More about jailed environmentalist Wu Lihong and his fight to save Lake Tai: Wu Lihong warned for years that pollution was strangling his beloved Lake Tai. Yet when a disastrous algae bloom, fed in part by pollution, forced a lakeside city to shut off its drinking water two weeks ago, the salesman-turned-environmental campaigner had little […]
Read MoreAn update on the June 4 classified ad in a Chengdu paper supporting the Tiananmen Mothers: Li Zhaojun, deputy editor-in-chief of the Chengdu Evening News in Sichuan’s provincial capital Chengdu, and two other members of the tabloid’s editorial office had been dismissed, the source told Reuters requesting anonymity. The newspaper and the Chengdu city government […]
Read MoreIn a sign that international criticism of China’s support for the ruthless regime of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe may have had an effect, Chinese diplomats are apparently less enthusiastic about relations between the two countries. But a cooling in ties may be due as much to economic concerns on both sides as politics: In the […]
Read MoreAs Bush and other G-8 leaders meet today to discuss climate change, the U.S. is expected to counter criticisms of its own inaction on the issue by raising efforts to engage China to change their practices: This year, China is expected to surpass the United States as the leading producer of greenhouse gases, and one […]
Read MoreIn a special issue focusing in “The Megacity,” IEEE Spectrum includes two articles about Dongtan, the eco-city being built outside Shanghai: China has embarked on a bold, expensive experiment to see whether pollution and waste”of all forms, not just the kind that taints the air”can be drastically reduced or even eliminated. In March it broke […]
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