China seeks green technology from Japan

Articles — By forcechange on May 9, 2008 4:34 pm

Chinese President Hu Jintao, while visiting Japan today, expressed his hopes that Japan would share environmental technology with China, as it attempts to deal with the side-effects of its rapid growth.  Apparently, while anti-green leaders in America  assert that environmentally oriented policies will do too much damage to our economy, countries like Japan, are using green tech to not only improve international relations with its neighbors, but could see a profitable export industry develop, as well.

Proponents of comprehensive environmental policy reform in America have long argued that a shift towards a green economy will not “wreck” us, as warned by President Bush, but instead will provide economic growth and trade opportunities into the future.  In fact, the policies of our current “pro-economy” leaders, like Bush, have led to the current situation where solar power development is shifting to Europe, where it has found a friendlier policy in place.  Fortunately, it is still early in this global shift, and therefore imperative that the next U.S. president help to formulate and implement a policy that will nourish green industry, rather than sending it abroad.

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