Haitus

Rob | June 26, 2008

Well, I’ve been off in nowhereland for a while, contemplating my navel and such.  In the meantime, some exciting things have happend – sort of.
1. Canada is opening 6 new trade commissioner’s offices in China indicating that Canada, in spite of it’s off-again, off-again relationship with China, is going to try and kick start a [...]

Lester R. Brown Comes to Beijing

Rob | June 4, 2008

Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute came to Beijing to lecture us on how the world is going to come to an end. If he keeps it up like this in China, it just might. Chinese people don’t have elected officals to call, and they don’t respond well to doom and gloom. Western visionaries need to to better than that in China.

Harper barking up wrong climate change tree

Rob | June 2, 2008

Stephen Harper wants Europe to pressure China into cutting GHG emissions. In the meantime, Japan is set to transfer technology and capital to China to do that job. Who will have more influence on China? Canada had better get ready to step up.