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August 18 , 2016
  • The Wall Street Journal: China Real Time：China's Pollution Deaths to Linger After Air Clears, Study Finds
    The Wall Street Journal: China Real Time comments, "China's government has declared a 'war on pollution.' New research, however, says that effort isn't nearly enough to stop the numbers of deaths caused by air pollution from rising over the next several years. An analysis released Thursday by researchers at the Health Effects Institute, a U.S. nonprofit research organization, and Tsinghua University says premature deaths in China related to fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 could rise by as much as 40% by 2030, to around 1.3 million, from 2013 levels....While the government is pledging to reduce coal use for electricity generation and industry, the researchers say burning coal will remain by far the largest source of pollution-related deaths in coming years as it remains a major fuel for industry and power supply."
  • TIME：China's Xi Jinping Talks Up 'One Belt, One Road' as Keynote Project Fizzles
    TIME reports: "China's 'One Belt, One Road' (OBOR) intercontinental trade and infrastructure project must bring real benefits to participant nations, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, as his seminal foreign policy initiative faces mounting challenges....'The progress and results of the Belt and Road Initiative have been greater than expected,' China's state newswire Xinhua quoted Xi as saying. ....However, that message has been tricky to sell. OBOR covers over half of the global population, three-quarters of its energy resources and 40% of GDP, yet, crucially, geoeconomic fundamentals have shifted since its unveiling in 2013. Infrastructure routes through resource-rich central Asia were proposed at a time when raw commodity prices were high, but given today's historic lows, the economic viability of such projects has suffered. Plus there is the added problem of China's own economic plateau."
  • The Washington Post：Manila will not raise sea row with China at ASEAN meeting
    The Washington Post reports: "Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he will not raise long-simmering maritime disputes with China at a meeting of Southeast Asian nations in Laos next month, preferring to talk quietly with Chinese officials. 'I will only bring the issue when we are together face to face,' he told reporters late Wednesday night. 'Because if you quarrel with them now and you claim sovereignty, make noise here and there, they might not just even want to talk.'...Ramos flew to Hong Kong last week to meet the Chinese legislature's foreign affairs chief, Fu Ying, and a leading government-backed scholar on the dispute, and they agreed on the need to reduce tensions through talks. China welcomed him to visit Beijing for discussions, but the tribunal ruling was not directly discussed, Ramos told reporters. He gave no indication of when any talks might be held."
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