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There is no such thing as a dull year in China. 2008 is well underway and already looks like another whopper. We're only a month in and we've already had the biggest storms in half a century. The Olympics, the mother of all China events, is now a scant seven months off. God only knows what will happen in between. But before we get too far into ...

I feel I owe the people of China an apology. About a month ago I accused this winter of being a ''pansy'' winter. As many people have since reminded me, I was tempting fate. Fate has obliged by throwing China it's worst winter storm in more than two decades at the worst imaginable time of year. Beijing has escaped with little more than a ...

You really didn't believe that things were getting better, did you? And you didn't believe that it fate that led Beijing to squeak past its 2007 blue-sky target by a margin of one whole day, did you? Conspiracy theorists, rejoice. Via Danwei, the Wall Street Journal confirms your darkest suspicions:On Jan. 1, the government announced ''blue sky'' ...