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.
One of the World Bank’s environmental consultants writes in the Bangkok Post on the profound effects of China’s new environmental push on prospects for business there. The piece begins with an look at the bevy of new restrictions and barriers that have emerged from the country’s ecological panic and warns of the State Environmental Protection […]
Read MoreAdding a new dimension to the story of China’s for-profit participation in carbon credit trading, the Financial Times reports that Chinese factories and carbon traders are raking in tidy revenues by exploiting the high credit value of trifluoromethane (also called flouroform or HCF-23): The equipment, known as “scrubbers”, to reduce HFC gases is cheap to […]
Read MoreReuters cites an unnamed source “close to the country’s movie regulator” as saying Martin Scorsese’s new hit mob movie ‘The Departed‘ will not be shown in Chinese theaters. The reason? A plot line in which Chinese government agents attempt to purchase advanced weapons technology from Irish mobsters in Boston. The government apparently demanded the offending […]
Read MoreCDT’s esteemed Biganzi editor writes for Newsweek International on the opening of China’s most efficient coal plant ever, but he tempers the optimism with an illuminating look at the environmental calamity China faces as a result of its continued dependance on coal to feed the furnace of its chugging economy. From the lead: It isn’t […]
Read MoreEthical Corporation joins the China environment chatter with a new series on the country’s energy problems, the first of which takes a long look at that hulking black devil: coal. The article’s author, Tom Miller, argues coal isn’t going anywhere despite its contributions to climate change, but there may be hope for using it in […]
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