In 1983, I stepped off a somewhat rickety Air China plane onto the tarmac of the Beijing International Airport — and practically needed a flashlight. Only one light burned in the airport terminal, and passengers were met not by taxi cabs and relatives driving cars but by friends and family ready to transport them home…on […]
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Michele Bachmann Wants to Crush EPA. First, She Should Go to China.
Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican Member of Congress who’s running for President, vows she’ll cripple the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency if she’s elected. Maybe if she spent a week in China like I recently did, she’d change her mind. I’ve just returned from a seven-day trip to Beijing, China’s capital, and Xi’an, the country’s cultural […]
I’m Heading for China…
Is China a beacon of the environmental future – or a reminder of its past? What are we to think, when in the same conversation, we hear that the country is building one new coal plant a week – at the same time that it is churning out wind turbines faster than any other country […]