Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.