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Black Cloud Over Beijing
Beijing— Air pollution in China's capital city reached record levels over the weekend. According to the U.S. Embassy twitter @BeijingAir, [...]
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Is Environmentally Sustainable Economic Growth Possible in China?
China has achieved miraculous economic growth over the past 30 years to become the world's second largest single-country economy. Since [...]
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How International Pressure Can Change Chinese Factories
The year kicked off with Mike Daisey's controversial monologue lambasting labor conditions in Chinese factories making Apple products. But it [...]
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Planning for China’s ‘Fall’
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA—At the annual Halifax International Security Forum last week, much of the discussion centered on challenges to American [...]
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A Dying Model: Chinese Capitalism
Since the 1980s, China’s economy has grown rapidly with an average annual growth rate of real GDP at about 10 [...]
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China, Canada and Oil: A Complicated Calculus
China National Offshore Oil Corporation's (CNOOC) $15.1 billion bid for Canada’s Nexen energy, a Calgary-based firm with oil assets in the [...]
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Social Media, China, and The Environment
Of the many misconceptions that outsiders hold about China, there is one that is incredibly easy to disprove: there are [...]
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Fast Food and the Tigers
After months of preparation, Yang Jie finally took her place in front of a busy KFC restaurant in Beijing’s Chaoyang [...]
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China’s Multifaceted Coal Problem
When it comes to charting China’s growing rural-urban divide, can there be any greater yardstick than pollution? In a country [...]
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Fashionable Pollution in China
Early one morning in 2011, environmentalist Lei Yuting was crouched by the side of the Fenghua River, which snakes through [...]
