English actually is pretty difficult for non-native speakers, especially those from Asia. I couldn't say that sentence in Chinese, and I lived there for a few years.
At risk of ruining your "Hate-China" circle jerk, I'm gonna repeat what another poster said here earlier.
Much of what you see is yellow dust or sand, not smog or pollution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Dust
Some of the dust particles carry pollutants, but what you see is not actually...