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May 12, 2008, 14:16 GMT

700 dead, thousands buried in China earthquake (3rd Roundup)


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AlexMay 12th, 2008 - 15:15:29

I am a Chinese. I pray for those who died in this earthquake. I warmly hope that you could go well.

Second, I strongly ask our Official of State Seismology Bureau. What were you doing? Whay there were not any warning before?

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SimonMay 12th, 2008 - 15:37:45

God blesses people who are suffering. There's no accurate prediction for earthquake yet. Be enlightened! Let help

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Our sympathies for ChineseMay 12th, 2008 - 19:34:40

It is a tragic event with thousands dead, and so much destruction. May God Almighty bestow patience and perseverence to the survivors and better hereafter for the dead.

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randyMay 12th, 2008 - 22:16:42

Western media will always jump on picking on the popular notes of anti-communism Chinese government - the so-called 'communist' 'red' (funny thing is Chinese government is probably more free-market oriented than a lot of Northern European countries now) Chinese government. It is far easier/more sensentional/popular in the West to demonize China after 50 years of anti-Communism anti-China proppaganda. This morning when I listened to an NPR interview of an American (NON-CHINESE) China study professor from Harvard who just came back from the earthquake region recently, he had to constantly deflect the intentionally netagively illy formulated questions from the interviewer who tried to get him to make negative comments on responses of Chinese governmet to the earthquake. However truthfully, the professor used wordings such as 'timely', 'well-prepared', 'better, faster than the U.S.'! And why you don't see too much negative comments or blaming games on the Chinese governmet's repsonse to the disaster on Fox News compared to normal - simply because even they would not lower their professional standards even more to fake and distort more facts!

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RandyMay 12th, 2008 - 22:21:44

Western media will always jump on exploiting on the popular notes of anti-communism Chinese government - the so-called 'communist' 'red' (funny thing is Chinese government is probably more free-market oriented than a lot of Northern European countries now) Chinese government. It is far easier/more sensentional/popular in the West to demonize China after 50 years of anti-Communism anti-China proppaganda. This morning when I listened to an NPR interview of an American (NON-CHINESE) China study professor from Harvard who just came back from the earthquake region recently, he had to constantly deflect the intentionally netagively illy formulated questions from the interviewer who tried to get him to make negative comments on responses of Chinese governmet to the earthquake. However truthfully, the professor used wordings such as 'timely', 'well-prepared', 'better, faster than the U.S.', 'modern infrastructure' that 'withheld earthquake well', 'Three Gorges Damn' is 'OK' etc! And why you don't see too much negative comments or blaming games on the Chinese governmet's repsonse to the disaster on Fox News compared to normal - simply because even they would not lower their professional standards even more to fake and distort more facts!

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macMay 1st, 2009 - 14:32:57

whatever

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