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Re:China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @10:35PM (#17193531)
The CPC has always had big plans for solving air pollution and smoking problems, ever since I started living there in 2007. Each campaign subsequently failed, so they don’t have a great track record on actually “getting things done.” Maybe it’s different this time, but a healthy dose of skepticism is definitely warranted.

Once my wife was pregnant, we had to leave Beijing, there was no way the air pollution problem would have been solved in time, even if the air got twice as clean it would still be way too much. Say what you want about the USA, but being able to open my windows everyday is incredibly liberating.

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Re:China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data by intopieces on Thursday May 31, 2018 @09:52AM (#17196279)
The Economist says the opposite: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/01/25/...
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Re:China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data by seanmcdirmid on Thursday May 31, 2018 @12:26PM (#17197616)
Are you saying that this article makes the claim that the government has successfully dealt with the problem or just that the current campaign seems to be effective?
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