China Promises More Research in Antarctica
Beijing begins hosting the 40th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting today. At the South China...
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LatestWang Jiuliang: Ghost Towns and Shattered Land
Photographer Wang Jiuliang uncovers the monumental waste created by development and progress. In...
China Pushes to Dig More Coal
With the U.S. expected to retreat from its role as a climate leader in the wake of Donald...
Trials May Spell End of Era for Chinese Labor Activism
Last month saw the long-anticipated trials of three Guangdong labor activists charged with...
CDT Bookshelf: Howard French on China in Africa
The story of China in Africa is not just one of lumbering and faceless state-owned enterprises...
Minitrue: Don’t Hype Mining Accident Swindlers
The following censorship instruction, issued to the media by government authorities, has been...
Myanmar: Dragon at the Doorstep
While heavily-disputed and sometimes illegal Chinese extraction projects in Myanmar contribute to...
WTO Confirms China Loses Rare-Earths Case
In 2010, China, then home to 40% of the world’s proven rare-earth reserves, accounted for...
Heavy Costs of Growth in Inner Mongolia
Martin Patience at BBC News reports that a resource boom in Inner Mongolia has brought pollution,...
China Further Consolidates Rare Earth Industry
While China is home to around 25% of the world’s proven reserves of rare-earth elements...
China in the Antarctic: Polar Power Play
Despite persistent buzz about its ambitions in the Arctic, most of China’s polar resources...
Mining in Tibet Threatens Asia’s Rivers
On their website, The Third Pole has posted an interview with Gabriel Lafitte, author of the...
Refusal to Fly Chinese Flags Brings Crackdown in Tibet
High Peaks Pure Earth has recently translated posts from Tibetan blogger and activist Woeser on...
Mining Tibet, Poisoning China
At The Asian Review of Books, the University of Sydney’s Kerry Brown reviews Gabriel Lafitte’s forthcoming book, Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World, available October 8th: A few...
Guangxi River Pollution Highlights Broader Issues
Xinhua reports that five officials in Guangxi have been suspended over heavy metal contamination in the Hejiang river. The owner of one processing plant has also been detained, but as Businessweek’s Christina Larson...
Pandas Survive Quake, But Some Face Other Threats
Xinhua reports that the 61 giant pandas at the Bifengxia breeding center were not physically harmed by the 6.6Mw earthquake that struck Sichuan province on Saturday, killing 193 and injuring over 12,000: According to the video...
Mining in Tibet: The Price of Gold
The Economist examines vigorous exploitation of Tibet’s natural resources in light of a landslide that killed 83 at a mine near Lhasa last week: THE ecology of the Tibetan plateau, noted the Ministry of Land and Resources...
Landslide Draws Attention to Toll of Mining on Tibet
Rescue work has resumed at the site of a disaster-struck mine near Lhasa after being suspended on Monday due to the risk of further landslides. The bodies of 59 of the 83 workers buried last Friday have now been recovered. China...
