Here two interesting articles about China:

"Choking on Chemicals in China" http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,387392,00.html

"The Chinese Miracle Will End Soon" (Interview with China's deputy minister of the enviroment) http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,345694,00.html

I feel that many wn's particularly on this forum have a wrong view of China,its strenghts,its problems and its impact on the western world.The transfer of western capital into China,thanks to globalization,did result in social injustice and enviromental pollution.Only a portion of the Chinese population profits from this transfered capital.The vast majority has to live under awful living conditions and has to work for slave-wages.Even now when the productivity in China is at its maximum,millions of chinese are unemployed.This productivity not only goes on cost of social injustice but also at the cost of the enviroment.To achieve maximum profits and productivity no measures whatsoever are taken for the enviroment.
And that in a country which needs more than ever new Lebensraum for its ever growing population.The social problems in China are massive and if nothing changes then i predict a new socialist revolution in Asia.