Chinas Communist Party knows how to quell a restive population ࢀ" but what about its environment? ࢀ" ABC News

Experts have said that global warming would have profound effects on global security , as fluctuating weather patterns and increasingly scarce resources could exacerbate geopolitical tensions. For China, environmental issues could also have profound impacts on the stability of the Chinese Communist Partyࢀ™s authoritarian rule ࢀ" and itࢀ™s something Beijing is abundantly aware of. ࢀœThereࢀ™s an assumption from a lot of people that China doesnࢀ™t understand that its pollution is a problem, where I think actually, Chinese leaders are much more up-to-date and aware of all the issues surrounding climate change than most Western leaders,ࢀ Jonna Nyman, an expert in…