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Beijing will soon have pollution police:
Officials in Beijing are taking steps toward tackling the city's long-standing smog problem with the creation of an environmental police force, according to state media. Spearheaded by Beijing's acting mayor Mayor Cai Qi, the political crackdown on burning fossil fuels comes amid a flurry of concern over the country's choking air pollution.
[...] The new environmental police would among other things, crack down on open-air barbecues, garbage incineration and biomass burning — areas previously overlooked by authorities, Xinhua reported. "Open-air barbecues, garbage incineration, biomass burning, dust from roads -- these acts of non-compliance with regulations are actually the result of lax supervision and weak law enforcement," Cai said. He did not say when the program would begin.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday January 10 2017, @06:20PM
Is it mental gymnastics to lay out an expectation for how things will play out given that we've already had years of moving towards this point?
Honestly, it could be. Far be from me to suggest I'm above bias.
It's far better to layout predictions first and then learn from being wrong than to do everything post-hoc and try to compel your worldview to be correct.
Like I already said, I laid out a bunch of predictions in that post, and even if I had more insight than everyone else about China(I don't), I'm likely to get at least a few of them wrong. The ones I do get wrong over the next 5ish years will be an excellent learning opportunity for me.