Mr. Li goes green

Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing captured the essence of environmental protection and the mutual benefits of trade in one sentence, in a speech at the National People's Congress currently going on in Beijing:

"You may know that many American households celebrate Christmas with artificial Christmas trees manufactured in China and this helps promote environmental and ecological protection in the US."

[from article "US urged to rein in Taiwan radicals" by Cary Huang and Shi Jiangtao; South China Morning Post, Wednesday March 8 2006]

It seems that relations between the two superpowers are warming up. Nothing that a little global warming can't defrost...