will china crash and burn

A few of us were talking about issues with China's growth and I remember Elizabeth Economy's article in Foreign Affairs last Fall...

Summary: China's environmental woes are mounting, and the country is fast becoming one of the leading polluters in the world. The situation continues to deteriorate because even when Beijing sets ambitious targets to protect the environment, local officials generally ignore them, preferring to concentrate on further advancing economic growth. Really improving the environment in China will require revolutionary bottom-up political and economic reforms.

Elizabeth C. Economy is C. V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenges to China's Future.

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See also "The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future" by Elizabeth C. Economy for more details. China has good intentions but no backbone. It's scary.