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NYT: China and India Make Big Strides on Climate Change

Chomsky said:
And they're really developing a middle-class!

I have a great deal of general public contact in the business & entertainment centers of my city, and I'm blown away by the number of middle-class and upper-middle-class Chinese doing business and pleasure in my city. They're educated and very Western and Globally aware, including well-taken to Western dress, food, and culture. Take away the thick accent, and they can interface and function in Western society and business as well as many native Westerners.

Their general knowledge of us and our ways, is far higher than ours of theirs. I'm shocked by the Western knowledge currently being acquired within China, compared to just a decade or two ago.
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It's the same as Germany or Japan. The US allowed its own pooulatiin to import anything it wanted, like the others the Chinese had an elite that had learned what that business would require and the culture was driven by personal achievement goals.
So China has gone through the process we saw in a row of counties aligned with the American model of development and economic success.

What will be interesting will be to see, if China can move to a domestically fed economic model or cannot manage it as Germany has not been able ti.
 
Visbek said:
Surprise!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/opinion/paris-agreement-climate-china-india.html?_r=0

China and India are on target to hit their Paris Agreement targets. China is ahead of schedule. India's cost for solar power is plummeting. China scrapped plans for 100 coal plants.

The emphasis on renewable / sustainable power doesn't seem to be cratering their economies, either. If anything, China's big spending could result in it being a leader in green tech.

Always nice to see a little bit of good news. ;)
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It's all rumor until it actually happens.
 
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