Reader Suggestions on the China Blog

During the past couple days some China Blog readers have offered a few suggestions. We always love to hear these, though I can’t promise we’ll go along with them. For instance, a regular commenter who goes by the handle “perseverance” suggests we add some posts in Chinese, which would be “an unusual publicity stunt.” I’m [...]

Global Warming and the Himalayas: Be Very, Very Afraid

No, this isn’t a story blaming China for global warming. Just a highly alarmed post about the Greenpeace report that just came out about their expedition to the Himalayan glaciers. As you can see from these now and then photos from the Rong Bu Glacier, the change from 1968 to 2007 is deeply disturbing the [...]

Coincidence …or Payback?

I would have posted the link but the Wall Street Journal, from which this comes, is behind a paywall so here it is. Considering the current worldwide furore over contaminate Chinese food products, this announcement is amazingly timed. Nobody’s perfect of course but the two parties involved-are both well known for their obsessive quality control. [...]