//…China in principle is well-placed to impose top-down, state-led campaigns that support government policy that could make it a climate action leader.
But Fang Kecheng, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, who published a paper on what he termed Beijing’s “authoritarian environmentalism” in June, said climate messaging was used differently.
“Like many other issues in China, climate change basically is used as an issue by media to glorify the state and the supreme leader and also to attack the United States and other western countries,” he said.
This has not always been the case. Around a decade ago, a grassroots-led campaign on air pollution prompted China’s leaders to clean up its smog-filled skies, especially in the capital Beijing.//
Full article: https://shorturl.at/hjX78 (Reuters)
Fang’s paper about authoritarian environmentalism: https://shorturl.at/mxzQ5
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