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February 2, 2014
Foreign Pool - Luncheon in the Department of State
White House Press Office | Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:12 PM | |
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Foreign Pool - U.S. President Obama's meeting with China Vice President Xi
White House Press Office | Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:08 PM | |
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Foreign Pool - Greeting, Feast, and Luau
White House Press Office | Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 3:01 AM | |
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Foreign Pool - Bilateral between U.S. and China
White House Press Office | Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:25 PM | |
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December 3, 2009
NBC Nightly News
Arab Monopolies
"When the world pays full attention to China, China is paying its attention to the Middle East."
This is the beginning my introduction to Arab Monopolies, a Japan's bestseller, and its Chinese version just launched in November, 2009.
Isn't China looking at the U.S.? Yes, it is.
But China in reality is not trying to compete with the U.S. but with itself, as it always does for thousands of years.
By 2027, Goldman Sachs predicts, China will be the largest economy in the world, and then the U.S. should never surpass China. Until 2050, China's economy will be twice than America's. The energy that fuels China's future growth is largely staying beneath the ground of the Middle East - petroleum.
In 2009, according to the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, 58% of China's oil is from the Middle East, and in just five more years, the proportion will rise to 70%.
If China matters to you in your future, so does the Middle East. Don't overlook it.
January 12, 2009
My First Book!
My first book, a Chinese translation of Go Green, Live Rich - a NYT's Bestseller - is going to be launched on Jan. 22, 2009!
After having my name appeared on newspaper headlines, magazine covers - now I have my name on a book!
The theme of the book is simple: by going green, you can make a fortune, too! It's the latest book written by David Bach, the author of The Automatic Millionaire. The site of Go Green, Live Rich is here.
The Chinese version is recommend, amazingly, by the president of Uni-president, Ching-Yuen Kao (高清愿), and his corporation can be seen as the Greater China's Kraft, which is huge! He rarely recommends any book for years...
Some links about my first book are here:
http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010424602
http://www.kingstone.com.tw/Book/Book_Page.asp?ActId=future&LID=1109&KMCode=2014210011266
http://www.book4u.com.tw/book_Detail.asp?goods_ser=kk0225605
Let's Go Green, Live Rich!!!
My Clips Broadcasted in the US
"My voice is heard though out the United States!" I shouted out loud when the piece that I helped out was broadcasted on NBC Nightly News. I still remember how thrilled I was!
The links of the clips that I participated in producing shown below:
1. "Making a difference", China Rising series:
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&brand=msnbc&vid=b8e4b0ee-85b9-4ac5-87d9-8fe1b36e0982
2. “Trading Briefcases for Diaper Bags”, the African American Women series:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/21996110#21996110
Also, I assisted in investigating into “9/11 Commission Report” for NBC News Investigative Unit. The result is on: http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/624314.aspx
The links of the clips that I participated in producing shown below:
1. "Making a difference", China Rising series:
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&brand=msnbc&vid=b8e4b0ee-85b9-4ac5-87d9-8fe1b36e0982
2. “Trading Briefcases for Diaper Bags”, the African American Women series:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/21996110#21996110
Also, I assisted in investigating into “9/11 Commission Report” for NBC News Investigative Unit. The result is on: http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/624314.aspx
August 30, 2008
Why I'm scared of strawberries from Greenland
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Why I'm scared of strawberries from Greenland
by Ching-Yi Chang (Sept. 20, 2007)
There are now potato plantations in Greenland.
"It is foreseen that Greenland can grow strawberries soon," the Greenland prime minister recently said. "It is a good thing for Greenland."
However, not much else is good about it. The Greenland ice sheet has rapidly shrunk as the average Arctic temperature increased to twice the global average in the past 100 years.
The opposite end of the Earth is no better. The Antarctic Ocean is too full to absorb carbon dioxide - our largest carbon trap is packed. And since carbon dioxide is the major anthropogenic greenhouse gas, if we can't reduce carbon dioxide emissions, our world will become warmer. Warmer isn't better for frigid countries like Greenland, not to mention coastal and crowded cities like New York that are vulnerable to rising sea levels.
Over the past century, the Earth's mean temperature has risen 1.35 degrees Fahrenheit. By the end of this century, the mean temperature will soar upward by as much as 9 degrees, according to a 2007 study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, composed of about 2,000 scientists.
Much of the foreseeable chaos cannot be gauged with a thermometer. Environmental disasters make food and water scarce, and the ensuing migration of people could engender the outbreak of disease and war. Some call the Darfur tragedy the first climate change war because of its origins in decades of drought.
It is no wonder, then, that the U.N. Security Council recently recognized climate change as not only an environmental issue, but as a threat to global security. The French even called it "the number one threat to mankind."
In Midtown, world leaders from nongovernmental organizations and the public and private sectors convened at the U.N. headquarters to voice their concerns about climate change.
The conference's declaration will be an important reference for this December's U.N. conference on climate change in Bali, Indonesia. A new global climate change agreement is needed by 2009 to replace the Kyoto Protocol before it expires in 2012.
Among the 2,500 participants, 400 were students - 72 of whom were student journalists from five continents. They will inform student communities worldwide that climate change is the toughest issue our generation must confront; our generation will experience firsthand the effects of climate change, after all.
Climate change is not only a challenge to our very existence, but a challenge to our future. We can move to any city to pursue our dreams, but we can't leave the Earth.
In 1932, The New York Times warned us in a headline, "Next Great Deluge Forecast by Science: Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of Seas and Flood the Continents."
But before 1968, no government paid attention to the issue of climate change. It wasn't until 2005 that the Kyoto Protocol finally took effect. However, the U.S. - responsible for 25 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions - is still not one of the 160 signing countries.
How long has it taken most countries to decide to tackle the issue of climate change? 73 years.
Yet it remains unclear whether or not the Kyoto Protocol will be decidedly effective in changing the course of global warming without U.S. participation.
We cannot afford to wait for today's leaders to determine our future. Act today. Act now. The world is in our hands.
The United Nations may have the will, the countries may have the technology, the entrepreneurs may have economies to deal with the current situation. But all we need is one important person to change the world: You.
One issue had a constant presence at the conference: Together we can make a difference. Everyone's individual effort can make a huge difference. After all, we have prevented ozone depletion.
So what to do now? Easy: Plant trees and change your lifestyle. Pay $57 to plant 11 trees and maintain them for 70 years - that will help you offset your personal carbon dioxide emissions. If you drive, plant more.
You know more than you may think about preventing climate change: Drive less, recycle, use low energy light bulbs and act globally but shop locally. A head of lettuce from California that traveled 3,000 miles to New York consumes 40 times its caloric value to produce and ship.
Some critics improperly dismiss climate change as a conspiracy for developed countries to suffocate developing countries' growth, that all the talk about climate change is just brainwashing, that we can't prevent it anyway.
In any case, for your health, your wallet and your future, do something if you can.
For our future, let's act together now.
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