guest_writer 0 2006-04-13T00:00:00Z Every spring, fierce winds, sweeping across the arid landscape of Inner Mongolia, blow walls of sand hundreds of kilometres eastwards, periodically enveloping Beijing and turning day to night. The authorities have planted thousands of hedges in the path of these dry whirlwinds, but the long green line is powerless against the force of the wind and the advance of the dunes. Sandstorms could well... Agnès 36292 false false false false 2006-04-13T00:00:00Z Sinai 10083 4057 0 1 China Sky Darkens the-middle-kingdom-convulses-with-change-by-agn-s-sinai The Middle Kingdom Convulses With Change 2009-09-25T01:34:18Z 11597