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...world is staring at China. It is not only awaiting the extravaganza of the coming Olympic flame, but also scrutinizing every minute detail of China’s governmental and environmental wrongs. Instead of progress and achievement, the world sees a polluted country unable to stop choking on its own secondhand smoke. Such negative publicity may serve to bring awareness to China’s gilded image in the wake of Beijing 2008, but it does not do justice to China and its efforts at change...
Environmental progress is being made in China, but perhaps not as fast as the media would like. Now may be the opportune time—with the focus on Beijing 2008—to highlight some of China’s developmental problems, but that does not mean the media can portray all of China as a giant wasteland in the name of instigating change...
...York Times has been running a series of investigative pieces on China’s environmental policies. It focuses primarily on China’s lack of progress on green initiatives and the government’s human rights violations against vocal environmentalists. Likewise, a recent Crimson op-ed went so far as to predict that “many Chinese may never see a blue sky for their entire lives...
...special significance of the hunger strike as a form of extra-democratic activism. Increased discussion with Columbia administrators, collective student pressure upon the Committee on the Core Curriculum (upon which three current undergraduates sit), even sit-ins and picket lines would seem to be more appropriate forms of encouraging progress. Especially in the forum of a higher educational institution, discourse and weight of argument should be relied on to advocate and cajole. Desperation tactics such as the hunger strike should only be resorted to in the direst of circumstances. And even then, protesters risk sensationalism overshadowing their intended message...
...Contract with America,” the Republicans wrote a “Covenant with Manchester Taxpayers.” Mandatory referendums on town budgets requiring over 3 percent tax increases; “performance-based accounting”—whereby town departments report progress with statistics rather than subjective reports; and a new town ordinance to combat blight were among the Republicans’ promises...