How to Drive U.S. Clean-Energy Job Growth? Collaborate With China
Small homes are a part of the character of San Francisco. So when the owners of the largest residential lot in the city announced their plans to increase the footprint on their nearly one acre property, the neighbors went to battle. Located in Monterey Heights, the "Asian Beverly Hills" of San Francisco, the home belongs to the Chinese Consulate, and is therefore afforded special protections by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The diplomatic mission could do as they pleased. Still, they pursued a diplomatic solution to help appease their neighbors, and soon after began construction on a seven-bedroom, two-bathroom, two-sitting room and two-tearoom add-on to the compound.
The neighbors didn't know that the expansion of the Consulate was only one sign of an increasingly
