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Well, Come to Beijing!

So said the sign at the aiport (above).

I will be in Beijing all this week, then moving down to Xiamen for a few days.

I never thought I would miss the smell of pollution, but, when I stepped off the plane, the unmistakable smell of coal plants, construction dust and cigarettes made me tear up …

… mainly because I was breathing pollution, construction dust and cigarette smoke. But at least a little piece was love for one o the world’s great cities—a sweaty, dirty sprawling mess of a place that I love.

All told, I should be blogging more over the next two weeks.

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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