The first crisis that comes across Xi Jinping desk is the air-pocalypse. It wasn't just Beijing, it was in all of north China, and it made a splash, 2013 was an important attitudinal tipping point, where the government is now openly saying, we are leaving behind this' economic growth at all cost' policy and moving in this new direction where there is harmony between economic growth... and environmental stewardship.

Daniel Gardner

Daniel Gardner (1750 – 8 July 1805) was a British painter, best known for his work as a portraitist. He established a fashionable studio in Bond Street in London, specializing in small scale portraits in pastel, crayons or gouache, often borrowing Reynolds' poses. By some critics Gardner is regarded as a notable artist who, however, was not an accurate draughtsman if it came to figure work especially to facial construction in some of his pastels. For others, on the other hand, it is this special looseness or facile elegance which represents the uniqueness of Gardner's style, and in which they see an anticipation of impressionism.

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