With the 2022 Winter Olympics looming, there are only two significant impediments to China’s efforts to host the Games in Beijing: Almaty, Kazakhstan, and the notorious smog that chokes the Chinese capital.
This isn’t the first time China has had to struggle against itself to make sure that an international event isn’t overshadowed – literally and figuratively – by nearly impenetrable air pollution. Smog was a significant factor in whether the International Olympic Committee would award the Summer Games to Beijing in 2008, a prize that China eventually won.
And last November Beijing hosted the 26th annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic …read more
Source: Time
