Vital Task for China's Next Leaders: Fix Environmental Protection - China Real Time Report - WSJ

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The Bohai Bay Oil spill compensation program may provide a model - derived from the Chinese Supreme Court's interpretation of the maritime law . - GWC

Vital Task for China's Next Leaders: Fix Environmental Protection - China Real Time Report - WSJ: 
By Stanley Lubman

"With China’s once-a-decade leadership transition scheduled to get underway in roughly three weeks, pundits and scholars inside China and out have been debating whether the next generation of leaders has what it takes to pursue the political and economic reforms necessary to address what some see as increasingly dangerous levels of discontent in society.

But if China’s next leaders are genuinely concerned with keeping peace on the streets, there’s a more direct way for them to achieve their goals: Find a way to enforce the country’s environmental regulations.  Chinese authorities’ continued failure to control industrial pollution, combined with the growth of a NIMBY mentality among the country’s ever more affluent citizenry, is proving to be an increasingly dangerous combination. At least twice this year, China saw massive environmental protests escalate into violent clashes with authorities that made international headlines."

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