“While our media empires are melting away like the Himalayan glaciers, China’s are expanding,” said Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York and a former dean of the journalism school at…
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The Message from the Glaciers New York Review of Books
It was not so long ago that the parts of the globe covered permanently with ice and snow, the Arctic, Antarctic, and Greater Himalayas (“the abode of the snows” in Sanskrit), were viewed as distant, frigid climes of little consequence.…
China: Defending its Core Interest in the World – Part I Yale Global
BEIJING: After speculation to the contrary, President Hu Jintao confirmed that he’s coming to Washington for upcoming nuclear proliferation talks. Not long after, Washington announced a delay in announcing any decision on whether China has been judged a “currency manipulator,” a…
China’s Magic Melting Mountain Condé Nast Traveler
All that is visible across the succession of deep, folding valleys hidden in darkness before me is the faintest outline of a sawtooth silhouette lancing up into a dazzling array of stars. I am standing alone on the rooftop of…
THE DESPAIR OF ORVILLE SCHELL | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog
Displaying a gift for comic timing that eludes most former UC Berkeley journalism professors, Orville Schell voices his concern over Himalayan melting – on the very same day that Himalayan non-melting hit the headlines. “Lately, I’ve been studying the climate-change-induced…
The Melting of America The Nation
Lately, I’ve been studying the climate-change-induced melting of glaciers in the Greater Himalaya. Understanding the cascading effects of the slow-motion downsizing of one of the planet’s most magnificent landforms has, to put it politely, left me dispirited. Spending time considering…
Can the U.S. Match China’s Efforts?
As the Asia Society’s Orville Schell has noted, “Without [the United States and China] in the climate-change game, there is, in effect, no game at all, and Copenhagen cannot succeed.” via Can the US match China’s efforts? | Hou Yanli…
China’s Boom: The Dark Side in Photos NYRBlog
I have seen some woeful scenes of industrial apocalypse and pollution in my travels throughout China, but there are very few images that remain vividly in my mind. This is why the photographs of Lu Guang are so important. A…
China-U.S. Relations on Right Track in Time of Great Challenge
He welcomed the new “U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue” mechanism which was revealed in a White House statement following the bilateral summit. “I think this is really a positive step forward. It means we will be discussing more than just…
China Reluctant To Lead Yale Global
NEW YORK: On her recent whirlwind trip to Asia, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seemed not only set on bringing the US out of the global leadership wilderness in which it had fallen, but on bringing China into a…