The Next Empire All across Africa, new tracks are being laid, highways built,ports deepened, commercial contracts signed—all on an unprecedented scale, and led by China, whose appetite for commodities seems insatiable. Do China’s grand designs promise the transformation,at last, of a star-crossed continent? Or merely its exploitation? The author travels deep into the heart of [...]

China Faces a Water Crisis

Today we go to China. A country imbued with a history of floods and droughts, China could now be facing an even greater challenge. After three decades of economic growth, hundreds of millions of its people have migrated to the cities. China is laboring under the pressure caused by a dramatic increase in demand for [...]