A new study assesses both commercial and potential military implications
Keidel forecasts that China’s economy will double by midcentury, fueled by domestic demand, not exports. Potential stumbling blocks to sustained Chinese growth—export concerns, domestic economic instability, inequality and poverty, pollution, social unrest, or even corruption and slow political reform—are unlikely to undermine China’s long-term success, according [...]

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And don’t expect the government’s environmental watchdog to do much about it.
These days China’s environmental bureaucrats know how to talk the talk. They readily admit that pollution is poisoning the country’s water resources, air and soil. They acknowledge that carbon emissions are soaring. If only, they lament, the government would give them the means to [...]

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Large chemical plants, backbone of the country’s industrial development, are built in China’s rural areas, close to small villages, where each year deaths due to cancer increase. The government denounces the rise in cases linked to industrial waste but refuses to close down the plants or move the villages.
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BEIJING: Industrial discharge and household wastewater have polluted a northern Chinese river so severely that the water is dark red in some parts and has caused chronic illnesses among villagers, a government publication reported.
Some of the 50,000 affected villagers living along the Futuo River in Hebei province said sweet potatoes and soy beans grown there [...]

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Air quality for Beijing Olympics sure to top agenda with IOC …
International Herald Tribune, France - 18 hours ago
Several conflicting reports have surfaced about measures to deal with the pollution during the games. Chinese news media have regularly reported that …
Is China going back on its pledge to provide cleaner air for the … The Free Lance-Star
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With the largest open-cast chromite ore mines in the world, India’s Sukinda valley endures significant pollution; 60 percent of the drinking water is contaminated with carcinogenic hexavalent chromium, affecting nearly 3 million people. Health officials say 85 percent (Times of India) of the population suffers from “pollution-induced” diseases and fatalities, such as gastrointestinal bleeding, tuberculosis, [...]

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BEIJING: No country in history has emerged as a major industrial power without creating a legacy of environmental damage that can take decades and big dollops of public wealth to undo.
But just as the speed and scale of China’s rise as an economic power have no clear parallel in history, so its pollution problem has [...]

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Russia, China and India contain the most areas where toxic pollution and human habitation collide with devastating effects.
* Chernobyl, Ukraine — The fallout from the world’s worst nuclear power accident continues to accumulate, affecting as many as 5.5 million people and leading to a sharp rise in thyroid cancer. The [...]

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BEIJING, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Growing numbers of Chinese children are being born with deformities due to pollution, later pregnancies and unhealthy lifestyles, state media said on Thursday quoting a medical expert.
About 1 million Chinese children were born each year with congenital heart problems, cleft palettes, nerve defects, limb abnormalities and other physical defects, director [...]

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She told me it all started when the water in her village turned red. First the red water claimed her crops, and then it stole away her husband. He died an awful death, suffering for more than a year before finally succumbing to cancer. The problem, as she described it to me, is that the [...]

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The Chinese government has been accused of attempting to cover up nearly three quarters of a million deaths caused by rampant pollution.
Chinese officials reportedly tried to censor a World Bank document that found filthy air and water prematurely kill 750,000 people every year in China.
One woman told Sky News that people in her village are [...]

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Pall - A cover for a coffin or tomb.
The country which once moved by bicycle or on foot has 152 million motor vehicles, an increase of 5 per cent in the first six months of this year. The Asian Development Bank predicts that the number of private cars could jump 15 times from the current [...]

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While the world is focused on China’s emergence as an economic powerhouse, recent changes in Chinese lifestyles have caused some serious internal problems. A pair of recent reports has stated that stress is ruining the sex lives of couples in that country, and that stress and pollution are lowering sperm counts in Chinese men.
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