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Beijing Is Polluted

By Dan Harris and Steve Dickinson

Since I had promised myself I would never devote a post to Beijing's pollution, please consider this to be on government manipulation of statistics and the perpetual need to examine Chinese government reporting. The International Herald Tribune just did an article, entitled, "Air Quality Improvements in Beijing Challenged," on a study claiming the sole basis for Beijing's claimed air pollution improvements rest on its no longer "including readings from two stations in polluted areas and [its now] ... using readings in three other stations in less polluted locales (h/t to China Challenges)

Full post as published by China Law Blog on January 12, 2008 (boomark / email).