
Karl Gerth, “China: Up Close and Personal” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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Is the Environment a Problem in China?
The environment is an extremely important aspect of all this. It's vital to the discussion of the growth of china, and for the rest of the planet. I mean, these er, these are not nationalistic issues. These are, these are global issues. One of the things that surprised me was that my understanding from your book is that the chinese regulations on automobiles are actually tougher thanthe american regulations on automobiles,. So if i'm remembering that correctly, that's interesting for for two reasons. The western view, seems to be, the naive western view, is that y these guyes are developing ad they're just not worrying about any of the stuff. And that that
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