China update
Published by MAC on 2007-02-16
China update
16th Feburary 2007
It may not happen, may be a drop in the ocean, while (to some) it will be further evidence of the authoritarian nature of the regime.
However, the Chinese administration's readiness to cancel environmentally damaging mining/minerals projects stands in striking contrast to the failure of some, more democratic, governments to do the same.
Will the decision to also close small coal-fired power plants have the desired effects - even if it could be achieved?
Meanwhile, with some six hundred new mineral deposits allegedly "discovered" in Tibet, we may doubt whether the regime's geo-political "march to the west" will be hampered.