Time to ditch the Asian climate change cliches

James S Murray
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As Businessgreen.com launches its new Asia-Pacific site, editor James Murray argues that green business leaders need to develop a more sophisticated view of the continent

Perhaps it's the result of the post-colonial hangover, but Western perceptions of Asia in general and China in particular, have long been characterised as much by cliché and stereotype as hard-bitten experience....

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