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Is Democracy Showing As Chinese App Monitors Pollution?

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Mark Melin
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Is freedom to protest starting to emerge in China?  Or will any questioning of the Beijing government and decent in their policies towards unprecedented air pollution be squashed?

Is Democracy Showing As Chinese App Monitors Pollution?

Tiananmen Square protests

Against a backdrop of the recently commemorated anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising comes a more peaceful protest.  A new mobile phone launched in China helps users track factories in China that are ignoring air pollution laws.  The application shows a map using GPS and shows over 400 red dots hinting about a business violating air pollution laws.

The application will be quite beneficial for all people… who breath...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.