china: news and opinion

How Beijing Cleans Its Air, and Fakes It Too

As savvy moves by officials in China are pushing its state-run English-language news outlets to start sounding a bit more like their Western counterparts, did a New York Times article over the weekend about improvements to air quality in Beijing bear... ...full story at TreeHugger

from TreeHugger on Wed, Oct 21 2009

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