Is China -- a demographic and potentially economic leviathan -- getting serious about international cooperation to protect the environment after more than two decades of putting development first?
Yes, maybe.
Acting on China's initiative, environmental ministers from Asian and European countries, including Japan's Yoriko Kawaguchi, will get together in Beijing later this week.
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