TT`s Lost in Tokyo : China

Playing with fire: With a Democratic President in the wings, Buchanan advocates protectionism

TokyoTom — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:32:00 GMT

See Pat Buchanan 's commentary in the November 11issue of CNSNews.com: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=39124 . Buchanan points to the unfair advantages that China has created by devaluating and keeping its currency cheap...(read more)

Envirofascists at Heritage Foundation worry about China's environmental problems

TokyoTom — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:15:00 GMT

The bleeding-heart liberal do-gooders! Puzzlingly, this Heritage Foundation essay completely fails to mention the predominant role of the state and the lack of property rights in generating the problem. They make Tom Friedman seem like the real advocate...(read more)

Tom Friedman/NYT roots for freedom and property rights as ways to propel Chinese progress along the enviro Kuznets curve

TokyoTom — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:06:00 GMT

Here's the money quote from Tom Friedman 's interesting op-ed at the Sunday New York Times : " The problem for the ruling Communist Party is this: China can’t have a greener society without empowering citizens to become watchdogs and...(read more)

Chris Horner/CEI: Confused or alarmist on Kuznets, China and climate?

TokyoTom — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:52:00 GMT

The right-wing Business & Media Institute has published a rather confused piece by Chris Horner , senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute , in which Horner, while noting China's progress along the environmental Kuznets curve (as...(read more)

"Environmental Kuznets curve" and Onion's spoof of China's Status as World’s Number One Air Polluter

TokyoTom — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:53:00 GMT

Sorry; this was too good not to share: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/china_celebrates_its_status_as . China has now outstripped the rest of the world in GHG emissions, as well. Government ownership of (and favoritism to) much of industry, a lack...(read more)

"Worldwatch" enviro group praises moves to water rights and markets in China

TokyoTom — Sun, 18 May 2008 00:55:00 GMT

Yingling Liu , manager of the China Program at the Worldwatch Institute , has praised recent steps by Chinese water authorities to clarify rights to water and to encourage water trading as a means to resolve serious issues over the use of water. Here...(read more)

Bush announces bold inaction on climate change

TokyoTom — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:18:00 GMT

As I noted in my April 15 post, http://mises.org/Community/blogs/tokyotom/archive/2008/04/15/bush-hoist-by-own-petard-prepares-global-warming-initiative.aspx , President Bush has indeed just made a specific policy statement on climate change . There is...(read more)

Bush - hoist by own petard - prepares global warming initiative

TokyoTom — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:47:00 GMT

More at the Washington Times: http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080414/NATION/676175489/1001 And at the Wall Street Journal's enviro blog: http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/04/14/green-bush-white-house-to-push-climate-package/?mod...(read more)