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If you happened to walk into the Temple of Earth in Beijing - the nearly 500-year-old monument where Chinese emperors once prayed for good harvests - on Aug. 28, you would have noticed a steady drip. The environmental group Greenpeace placed ice sculptures of 100 children - made of the glacial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Climate-Summit Agreement Still Far Off | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

Compared with those experienced players, Chinese manufacturers are like teenagers just getting their car keys. When it comes to electric, though, that could be an advantage. Beijing knows that promoting electric vehicles could be a way to stem the country's rising dependence on foreign oil and clear its polluted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electric Cars: China's Power Play | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

Priority Lane It won't be an easy race for China to win. The Chinese auto industry is fractured and weak. The domestic market is dominated by foreign manufacturers such as GM (which is doing much better in Beijing than it is in Detroit) and Volkswagen. But the government in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electric Cars: China's Power Play | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

BYD is far from perfect - a concept car it revealed at the Paris auto show this year had its tires mounted backwards - but it received a boost last fall when American financial wizard Warren Buffett bought 10% of the company for $230 million, a stake that is now worth at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electric Cars: China's Power Play | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

China has long struggled to rein in independence movements in Taiwan and the semiautonomous regions of Tibet and Xinjiang, where deadly riots over ethnic tensions between the Han Chinese and Uighur minority unfolded in July. With the moderate Ma as President, Beijing's fears over Taiwan have been alleviated, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Taiwan's President Allowed the Dalai Lama Visit | 8/28/2009 | See Source »

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