Zhaohua Li
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.
‘Unexpected’ pollution comes as no shock – China Daily
China’s official English-language daily newspaper comes out with a harrowing list of environmental statistics and an appeal for more staff to help the beleaguered State Environmental Protection Administration actually enforce the government’s new commitment to green growth: An “unexpected environmental accident” occurred in China roughly every other day in the first half of this year, […]
Read MoreBooming populations threaten East Asian coasts – Ben Blanchard
With the UN Environmental Programme opening a conference today in Beijing to address water pollution in Asia, Reuters summarizes a UN report on the impact of population growth on East Asia’s oceans: Growing populations and booming economies are threatening fragile coastal areas in East Asia, and the region’s coral reefs could face total collapse within […]
Read MoreUnforbidden cities – Harrison Fraker
In a two-part series for China Dialogue, the dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design writes about a trip to Tianjin, takes apart the environmental costs of China’s urban planning nightmare, and examines a possible solution: Intersections, even though signalised, presented a terrifying game of “chicken”. Cars, trucks, and buses wove through an equal […]
Read MoreCourts Move to Control Press Coverage of Legal Proceedings – Wang Feng et al (Caijing)
China’s government tightened the noose on newspapers once again with new rules revealed last month that allow courts to withhold a greater range of information from reporters. As with previous noose-tightenings, Caijing came out with a bold response, just now made available in summarized form on its English site: It a major step backward for […]
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