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.
From China Daily, via China Environmental News Digest: Swimming in Pearl River was once a must activity in the summer for people in Guangzhou, the capital of South China’s Guangdong. But since the 1970s it has become a risky pastime because of increasing amounts of consumer and industrial waste in the water. With clean-up efforts […]
Read MoreEnvironmental consequences of China’s development don’t only affect the poor, according to a Xinhua report: Disputes over office air quality are on the rise in recent years. In some cases, employees have sued their bosses for provided an unhealthful work environment; in other cases, building management and furniture makers have been sued for using unhealthful […]
Read MoreA statement via Xinhuanet from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the National Press Club in apparent contradiction of the Pentagon’s recently released Quadrennial Defense Review: A top U.S. military leader has said that he believes the future for China and the United States has much more potential to be positive than […]
Read MoreTim Johnson of the San Jose Mercury News writes on polluted drinking water in China: As China gallops toward the modern era, access to safe and clean drinking water is beyond the reach of hundreds of millions of rural and urban people. Chemical spills, rampant pollution and poor stewardship of the land have tainted much […]
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