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There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.

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For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

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When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals.

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I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.'

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Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.

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Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

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Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.

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