Alex Wang Gauges Impact of China’s Environmental Protests

Foreign Policy, August 23, 2011 by Christina Larson
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“If this incident leads to more and better environmental transparency and better systems for ensuring that the public is protected from environmental risks, then it will have been a victory.” But he adds: “If the takeaway for the powers that be is that information needs to be more tightly controlled, then the pressures that led to the Dalian PX protests in the first place will only continue to grow.”