Or, on second thought, don’t. The following is from the Beijing based Global Environmental Institute….

Panda Dung Makes ‘Green’ Souvenir

Ling Li – August 7, 2007 – 5:00am

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Political leaders everywhere—whether elected or unelected (as in China) –obviously care about public opinion. In this Olympic year, China’s leaders are arguably more attuned to foreign perceptions of their country than ever before. They should thus be interested in the following survey results from John Zogby, who runs a well known …

Whoa! One year away and Jumpin Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, goes off the talking points! He tells a CNN interviewer Wednesday morning that some events next year could be postponed if the air quality is too poor in Beijing.
There is, of course, next to no chance this will happen. There won’t be a …

We’re now one year away from Olympics 08, and, as if responding to the crack of a starting gun, a group of prominent dissidents in China have come out of the blocks with a tough, open letter calling for “universal human rights” in China.
Herewith the letter from “Chinese Human Rights Defenders (who are identified below.) This …

China’s basketball super star Yao Ming got married yesterday here in Shanghai. His wife, Ye Li, also plays hoops for the national team, and is herself six feet two inches tall (Yao’s 7’6”) which has led to all sorts of jokes about their forthcoming 12 foot tall children. (Ever mindful of guests with special needs, the Shangri …

You can get a sense of the bureaucratic infighting within the Chinese government over the need for stronger environmental protection versus the need for continued strong economic growth in the following dispatch, which notes that the government has postponed “indefinitely” the release of the latest “green” GDP figures (for the …

Ok, maybe my post a few days back about why China’s an environmental disaster area (corruption, corruption, corruption, I believe I wrote) was a tad too cynical. Herewith an observation from Stephen Green, an economist at Standard Chartered Bank based here in Shanghai. It is from cases like this–albeit lots and lots of them–that …

The following link is to a piece in the current issue of the Weekly Standard. It’s written by John Tkacik, a former foreign service officer in China who’s now at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank in D.C. This piece is a little thinly sourced–much seems to come from a single White House source–but its thesis is a …

We’re just a year away from the Olympics now, and one aspect of the conventional expectation—that we’d see a charm offensive from Beijing on the human rights front—hasn’t happened. At least according to this latest report from Human Rights Watch. Anyone out there have any thoughts as to why not (if you agree with the thrust of …

Like Hong Kong, Beijing’s skies today were remarkably clear, or clearer than normal at least. More often they’re like what Jerry Guo, an intern at TIME in Beijing, experienced on a recent trip to the Beijing National Stadium. Here’s his report:

Last Friday should have been a nice breezy, even sunny day. But since it’s Beijing, the dust …

A commenter by the handle of Last asks about the whereabouts of the campus and the former Uighur neighborhood I mentioned yesterday. The location is Ganjiakou, and the Uighur neighborhood is gone. It took some asking, but finally one old man pointed out where it once stood. It doesn’t look anything like I remembered. I don’t know of any …