Well, that didn’t take long, did it?
In the wake of the newest reports setting the death toll from the Chinese earthquake north of 50,000, the government response of 50,000 troops, which was initially hailed as a superb example of the actions of a government in complete control of its situation, is looking a little less adequite.
It takes two soldiers to carry one body.
May 14, The Guardian:
Authorities coping with disaster without need for outside help
Duncan Campbell
Initial indications are that the Chinese feel they have sufficient resources and experience to deal with the earthquake’s aftermath, although aid organisations and foreign governments have offered help, both financially and in terms of expertise…
Among international agencies and governments, the general feeling that seems to be emerging is that China has the infrastructure, the personnel, the resources and the experience to deal with the crisis without significant outside help. Whereas it was immediately clear that Burma would not be able to cope with the scale of their disaster on their own, China, with its vast army and its previous knowledge of severe earthquakes, presented a very different picture.
May 17th, The Guardian:
Beijing open to foreign aid and scrutiny in wake of tragedy
Julian Borger
For the first time, Beijing has accepted aid from abroad and invited rescue teams from Japan, Russia, South Korea, Singapore and even Taiwanese charities. US offers of direct assistance were declined but China’s embassy in Washington encouraged Americans to send cash and supplies, a distinct break with the past.
May 21st, The Guardian:
China dissident held ‘for criticising quake response
Jonathan Watts
Chinese police have detained a political dissident because of remarks he made about the government’s handling of the Sichuan earthquake, according to his family and supporters.
Guo Quan, the founder of the China Democracy party, was seized outside his home by seven or eight police officers four days ago. They searched his house and confiscated his computer.
“They waited outside and caught him as he was taking our child to school,” said his wife Li Jing…
In the past week, he is said to have raised questions about the emergency services’ response to the quake and the safety of nuclear facilities in Sichuan. Fellow members of his small party believe his detention is connected to last week’s disaster.
Well then, I think we can all understand why Duncan Campbell was being so boosterish, can’t we? That must be pretty strong Kool-Aid they have in China, I’m thinking, except that … Duncan Campbell is actually in the UK and Jonathan Watts is in Beijing.
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raincoaster 
In a country whose leadership tries to forget the Cultural Revolution and drags out the Japanese slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians in the 30’s and World War Two only when it’s politically expedient, what do you expect? It’s a wholly different institutional outlook on the value of human life.
I didn’t expect anything different from China. I just didn’t expect they’d have a foreign agent writing for the Guardian, is all.
I CANT HELP MY BEEVER DRIPS. YU MAKE FUN OV EVRYWON WHO HAS BEEVER DRIP?
Naturally. See your gynecologist. And don’t sit on my sofa!
That’s the yeast of your worries
Sorry about the off-topic – I have fat-fingered keyboard syndrome today
It’s the lead in your ding-dongs. Where are they made again?
His ding-dongs were mostly made at Andover and Yale.
As to Campbell, why on earth is he so down on Burma when they appear to be coping more or less equally well?
Huh? Who pays attention to what Campbell says anymore? We’re stuck with him till someone poisons him, like an old dog that’s no good. But he has all the global relevance of an old hound dog.
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Metro: and those ding dongs weren’t wrapped in foil as they should have been
Only their heads, FFE. Only their heads.
Filthmonger. If I was referring to that, I would have called them schlongs, which is a rarely-known prototype brand name for what became Twinkies . . .
Ya, and if you wrap them with foil and then have sex with them…well, it explains why Republican women always have Big Hair.
Rainy…rainy, where else i could get corny? (Lmfao at FFE and your fancily defensive replies, too)
Anyway, […] It takes two soldier to carry one body […]. To me, it’s not more than showing off China’s supremacy on men producing. No wonder they managed to be the most powerful country — in term of inhabitant numbers ! May be there should be a global road sign here in Indonesia saying ‘NO MORE SPACE FOR CHINESE RACE’. Oops…, do i sound racist? Nope, i’m just trying to give chinese a credit :-D.
P.S. Don’t bother to take the joke, only javanese understand this kind of joke.
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Your spam link has been deleted. You’re already banned at several places around WordPress…do you want to be banned here, too?
Yes, you sound racist. And you very obviously don’t understand what anyone here is talking about.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2008/06/09/unnatural-family-planning.aspx
That’s not the worst of it, I’m afraid. The Chinese government is now offering to essentially “buy” grieving parents a new child.
Charming. And perfectly in line with their humanitarian track record.