In the Amazon, Could China be Greener than Germany?. Surprise Findings from Projects with Diálogo Chino and Die Zeit Two projects out this month paint a man-bites-dog portrait of environmental trends in Brazil, home to the world’s most important and most threatened tropical forest. An in-depth report by Diálogo Chino, by grantees Ning Hui and Sarita Reed, shows that China, which for two decades has been associated with environmentally destructive hydroelectric and mining projects in the Amazon, is now increasingly pressing for greener projects and greater transparency. The article notes startling statistics: While China imports more beef and soy from Brazil than any other country, only 2 percent comes from suppliers linked to illegal deforestation, less than the percentage of suspect beef and soy imported by the European Union. The EU’s biggest meat producer by far is Germany, as grantee Maria Mast notes in a revealing article for Zeit Online on the studied lack of interest by me