The River Runs Black

Elizabeth C. Economy is C. V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director, Asia Studies, at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is coeditor of China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects and The Internationalization of Environmental Protection. Her articles and opinion pieces have appeared in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the International Herald Tribune, among other publications. She consults regularly for the U.S. government on issues related to China and the environment and is a frequent television and radio commentator on U.S.-China relations.