Transpacfica: Enviro reporting as demeaning?

A fellow Medill alum, Graham Webster, writes a blog, Transpacifica.net, focused on Sino-Japanese relations.
Recently, Webster critiqued some of James Fallows’ recent blog commentary about the idea of whether or not foreigners are “dissing” China by noticing the country’s pollution. Fallows’ post was written in direct response to a note he received from Shelly Kraicer, a [...]

Fabulous and Fortunate

“ASIAN FAB 50″
Forbes released its third annual Asian Fab 50 list. India led the pack with a total of 12 companies, ranging in sectors from banking to construction. Taiwan followed with 10 companies, most of them in the tech industry. China made the list with seven entries, more than in any previous year. (To [...]

AP: China shifts balance of power

Here’s a good overview of China’s speedy takeover of the world economy. Nothing really new to add to what’s already been said, but a very succinct analysis, along with interesting anecdotes and observations about how “the transition to a larger presence on the global stage comes with growing pains, for China and the rest of [...]

NYT: China ‘Choking on Growth’

The New York Times presents “a series of articles and multimedia examining the human toll, global impact and political challenge of China’s epic pollution crisis.”

As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes
By Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley
August 26, 2007

Summary: China is either unwilling or unable to make changes to improve the environment. As a result, public [...]

Evan Osnos: U.S., China, addicted to each other

…heard from Danwei.org….
Evan Osnos, Beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, talks to Stephen Colbert about cashmere farms and their detrimental effects on the environment and the global economy.

According to Osnos, the demand for cheap cashmere from China is speeding up the desertification of grasslands in northern China, where cashmere goats trample around the land, [...]