Whereas the full impact
of this year is yet to manifest itself in the city and its surrounding
region, the geopolitical outcomes
of the Western centric order's fading power on the position
of China and Hong Kong in the
world are beginning to mark the debates in the city's
fragile public space.
-LSB-...] Home to 108 million people, the Loess Plateau in Northern China is one
of the
world's most eroded
regions, as a result
of thousands
of years
of over-exploitation over its
fragile ecosystems built on dry powdery wind - blown soil9.