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China Expat: A back-up plan for Olympic pollution

Josh at China Expat blogs about Beijing’s test to push 1 million cars off the road for the Olympics.

Here’s his insightful conclusion:

In short China has a lot riding on getting next month’s trial right. If it fails there will be an outcry of people second-guessing the wisdom of handing Beijing the games. On the other hand, maybe failure would force China to more seriously tackle the problem of pollution, which despite a lot of attention recently, has seen slow response. The Olympics were given to Beijing both as a coming out party and a chance to examine under the microscope of international scrutiny the problems that exist. If failure next month produces introspection then perhaps that is the best outcome. For the athletes dirty air is only two weeks of their lives, but for the Chinese is may be taking away years.

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