![]() ![]() Above everything in the photos, however, was the haze. There were pictures of the visit to Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and, of course, the obligatory trek to the Great Wall. There were the usual scenic shots of boats near the wharves of the Huangpu River and the Bund of Shanghai. Out came the photographs from Shanghai and Beijing. I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s and 1960s and I never saw anything like it before.” The speaker was a close acquaintance who visited China about two months ago. I would cough up black phlegm all evening. I would get back to the hotel room and I had black lines of soot all over my face. All the locals wore surgical masks, and so did almost everyone in our group. “The air was so thick that I thought I was choking,” she said. Whiskey and Gunpowder’s Byron King explores… Everywhere you look in Shanghai or Beijing, you see construction – that is, if you can make anything out through the haze of pollution. T he Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: It’s no secret that China is booming. ![]()
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