Following is an excerpt of a speech given at Kansas State University yesterday by General Michael V. Hayden, Director of the CIA: China, a communist-led, nuclear state that aspires to—and will likely achieve—great power status...
Read MoreIn what might be called green management with Chinese characteristics, officials in southern China have decided to punish a handful of environmental offenders, not just with fines, but also by forcing them to publish a letter of apology on Thursday in the local party newspaper: The remorseful enterprises in Zhejiang included two paper mills, two […]
Read MoreThe New York Times Week in Review looks at the responsibilities of China and the U.S. in resolving the climate crisis: As always, the fingers of many experts on energy and the environment point both west and east — to the United States and China. The established superpower arose riding a wave of fossil-fueled prosperity. […]
Read MoreFrom The Reuters: China has dismissed Internet gossip that its first photo of the moon taken from a lunar orbiter might have been plagiarised from NASA, local media said on Monday. The country launched its first lunar probe, the Chang’e 1, in October and released a photo featuring a patch of grey moon surface splotched […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Qinghai News Online: It’s no surprise to see tourism crawling all the way up the Qinghai Plateau. And it’s no wonder either more and more visitors the plateau are driving their own cars to get there. Yet, at the same time, the plateau has seen a boom in environmentalism. “We came […]
Read MoreChinese environmental officials held a “secret” meeting with members of the U.S. congress, without White House participation, about climate change agreements, according to Spiegel: High-ranking sources close to the participants of the meeting between the Chinese delgation and Congress said the Chinese sought to find out how determined Congress is to push through rigorous climate […]
Read MoreNotwithstanding its protection of charismatic megafauna (i.e., big charming animals like the panda), China has done a terrible job preserving biodiversity. With the Chinese River Dolphin (ÁôΩȱÄ˱ö ) now functionally extinct, Asia Times comes through with an informative summary of the country’s failure to protect animal life within its borders: China has one of the […]
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: On Wednesday, China celebrated the beginning of its one-year countdown to the Beijing Olympics. Festivities and fireworks animated Tiananmen Square, a gathering place known also for its bloody memories. A...
Read MoreChina is attempting to force companies to upgrade their technology by imposing export limits on manufactured goods and by restricting raw materials imports. From Bloomberg: China will curb exports of cheap labor-intensive products to force manufacturers into making higher-quality goods, in a move to narrow the world’s largest trade surplus and reduce environmental damage. The […]
Read MoreThe Financial Times reveals China’s push for environmental transparency only goes so far: Beijing engineered the removal of nearly a third of a World Bank report on pollution in China because of concerns that findings on premature deaths could provoke “social unrest”. The report, produced in co-operation with Chinese government ministries over several years, found […]
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