By Rowan Callick, Asia-Pacific editor
The Australian
Verdant mountains cannot stop water flowing; eastward the water keeps on going.
THUS the headline for an article in which China's Xinhua news agency has responded to Western critics of the country's role in the recent climate change conference. It included a detailed account of the government's efforts, and of Premier Wen Jiabao's meetings during his 60 hours in Copenhagen for the summit.
It said, in defiance of attacks such as that of Britain's Climate Secretary Ed Miliband, who accused China of hijacking the event: "The Copenhagen conference has put China on a higher and broader world stage. China has reason to be proud, and China will work even harder!"
This process is now viewed in China -- and also in the rest of the world, underlined by China's crucial role, for better or worse, in Copenhagen -- as unstoppable as the rivers that flow east across its plains from the Himalayas.
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