THE FOURTH ESTATE- Air Pollution

creased trust. The biggest cross on their backs has been that they have been mistrusted as supporters and sympathisers of foreign inspired causes. It has soured their relations with the local populations and magnified all other barriers between the two, such as the distinctiveness of Chinese culture, I he jealousy aroused by the greater prosperity achieved by the immigrant Chinese, and the resentment felt by the Chinese over the increasing restrictions to which they are subjected by local governments mistrustful of their economic power.