Congrats to the New York Times for today's chilling article about drought and pollution in China. The bigger takeaway, for me at least, was how little control Beijing has over the provinces. Imagine if U.S. state governments struck their own deals with corporations to build dams, factories, bridges or whatever, flouting Federal laws in the process or bribing enforcers into silence. That's what's going on in China.
That China is polluted isn't news. But things clearly are spinning out of control and, paradoxically, no one seems to be in charge in the world's largest police state.
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