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As I remarked earlier this week, the Olympics Inspectors are in town. This Beijing style pea-souper is what they get to see. When the fog descends, pollution concentrates, the air stinks and instead of actually doing something about it, officials tell us –once again– that the elderly and the young shouldn’t go outside. And we [...]
Comment by a reader on my post about how China selects its leaders: I do not think any political system is designed to select the most competent leaders. The best they can get is the most accepted leaders by ALL PARTIES who has a say at the time. Look at Bush. It is pretty hard [...]
CCTV This from my colleague in Beijing Lin Yang: I have become a TV fan at a very unlikely time. When all channels are playing the 17th Party Congress materials during prime time, there is one channel that stands out. Instead of playing hard-core propaganda, it is playing a “dramaganda,” as I call it, about [...]
In Hong Kong, we like to blame pollution on the factories of neighboring Guangdong province, but the fact is that vehicle emissions are an even greater contributor to the appalling state of our air. After coal-burning power plants, they comprise the second largest form of air pollution, and the city reels daily, in emphysematous torment, [...]
