Shanghai, view from Jinmao Tower. One of the clearer days.
23. 09. '09

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„This country hasn't seen blue skies for couple of decades.“ So I heard from other foreigners in China every time I talked with them. They would be right. „The pollution is absolutely appalling,“ they would go on. But that they don't know what they are talking about. This country hasn't seen blue skies ever.

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