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Western environmentalists are the useful idiots of the Chinese Communist Party, says a report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
China’s green credentials are often praised by Western environmental groups who apparently believe that China is serious about cutting its carbon dioxide emissions. More
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Well, I’ll give them the idiots, but debate the useful part.
Western journalists are on top of that perch!
I went to China in 2002 for a 2-week tour, led by a professor who had been on Nixon’s NSC. Very enlightening, and he gave us opportunities to hear from various people as to the real politics of China.
He gave everyone a list of drugs to bring on the trip, mostly as a precaution. I asked a doctor friend to write up the prescriptions. Turns out he had been to China the prior year. “You’ll develop a cough after a few days,” he said. “It will go away about a week after you get home.” And he was right.
I was in china for two weeks in 2007 on a work related trip. It was a few days after a massive typhoon passed through south Asia. The massive low pressure system sucked the pollution out of mainland china right before I arrived. The first week was perfectly blue sky. During the weekend in the middle of the trip I took a tour of bejing and local attractions. At the great wall our tour guide marveled at how far she could see, saying in her ten years as a guide she had never seen that far. She was taking pictures like a tourist would. At the middle of the second week the pollution returned. The skies were a yellow/brown haze, even on non-cloudy days. The locals started wearing their masks again. I got the cough LCD mentions above.
Also – There were factories and highrise buildings under construction in every city, in every direction I looked. This was in 2007, after only about 10 years of massive growth. Just think how bad it is 13 years later.
Well DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH… 🙄