China ’ s rapid, wealth-generating growth devastated its environment.

Through its Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing now exports this model to poor nations.

China’s President, Xi Jinping, has promised to “green” the Belt and Road.

This lawyer is holding Chinese companies to that promise.

Jingjing Zhang has fought polluting Chinese companies for decades. Now she’s teaching lawyers across the Global South how to do the same. Her work has never been more urgent.

Planet China : Fifth in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world .

When Jingjing Zhang saw a string of urgent texts light up her phone, she knew something had gone wrong.

Photo and video messages showed a tidal wave of brown sludge rushing into the Zambian country

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