The Year 2017 is a fascinating story folded into an informative
perspective on Asia. Everyone must understand where they have been
before it is possible to know where they are going. The book blends
together the history and culture of the past with the opportunities
and challenges for the future There is a constant weaving of
yesterday and tomorrow, good news with bad news.
Jack Jamieson, a journalist on his final assignment following a
thirty-five year career as a correspondent dent for an
international paper, arrives in Hong Kong on a sultry and polluted
June evening in the year 2017. The economic prosperity of China
presents extraordinary environmental problems for countries in the
region which are downwind or downstream from China's 1.6 billion
people.
Jamieson is joined by Libby Li, a young Chinese freelance writer
whose beauty and charm provide access 13 the world's leaders
Together they cover the Global Environmental Summit in Hong Kong
civilian unrest as a result of severe drought conditions in
northeast China, an armed conflict between Chinese and Korean
troops, the leak of top secret U.S. military satellite photographs,
the humanitarian shipment of water to victims of the drought and
the death of a Korean diplomat. The interrelationship of these
events opens the door to the past, present and future of Hong Kong
and Asia.
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