China surpasses US as the world’s biggest energy consumer, but immediately rejects title

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By CARA ANNA, Associated Press Writer
BEIJING – China rushed to keep an oil spill from reaching international waters Tuesday, while an environmental group tried to assess if the country’s largest reported spill was worse than has been disclosed.
Crude oil started pouring into the Yellow Sea off a busy […]

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Lennar builders, a national home contstruction firm, is settling litigation over reported problems with drywall that they obtained from China. I didn’t know that drywall came from China? Did you? Its a low value product, i.e. does not require a lot of engineering design, which makes it a candidate for manufacture outside of the US. […]

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“It’s the culture, stupid” to paraphrase President Clinton. In the sense of saving face, even well educated Chinese can’t seem to come to the truth. Actually, I’m surprised this report even got out of China. Cheers to the press.
From Reuters:
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese hospital faces an investigation for failing to report the deaths of […]

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