A ‘Small’ Spill: China’s Environmental Tango

New York Times: Not long after taking up work in Beijing, I ran across an interesting chart that, reduced to a nutshell, says this: when Beijing's air is bad, the government tweaks things to make its pollution reports look better than they really are. Pig-lipsticking, of course, is anything but a Chinese invention, but on Chinese environmental matters, it has long been something of an art. Consider November 2005, when Harbin's city government announced that it was shutting down the city water supply ......

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