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For The Record, I Am Sticking With My Claim That The Simultaneous Degradation Of Air Quality, Water Quality, Water Supply, Food Safety, Soil Quality, And Other Environment-related Variables Is The Main Challenge To China's Continued Development.

Successful Societies-those Which Progress Economically And Politically And Can Control The Terms On Which They Deal With The Outside World-succeed Because They Have Found Ways To Match Individual Self-interest To The Collective Good.

Everyone In The Chinese Economic World Knows That The Country Is Not Going To Move Out Of Cheap-workhouse Status, Toward The Realm Of 'real' Rich-country Corporate Power And Prosperity, Unless (among Other Changes) It Begins Removing These Price Distortions.

I've Learned That I Need To Spell Out, Even In Cases Seemingly So Blatant, That In Fact I Am Not Taking This At Face Value And Am Being 'sarcastic.

In A Time Of Transition For Journalism All Around The World, It's Reassuring To Know That Some Of The Old Ways Endure.