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May 12, 2008, 21:57 GMT
Taiwan search, rescue team ready to fly to quake-hit Sichuan
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Human's life first!
But if someone use the disaster to get political gain, so shut up and get out! u humiliate the man's lives;shame on u !!!!
when you are talking Chinese Goverment unhumane, our people are all ready do our best to save people`s life.
Please remind the disaster in New Orleans, Mr.Bush and his staff took long time to action. Our goverment take action immediately.
The military all ready fly to the earthquate center to save people`s life
Mr Wenjiaobao, said ' We must advance to the disaster area ! A second means a life! ' the old man head for the disaser area 1 hours after he knew the earthquate!
BTW, lots of Tibetan living in that erea!
I know the fatality immediately via the internet. It is real time update!
This is China!
The relationship between China and Taiwan is special at the moment.Just because both sides have not established the straight flight ways, people from two sides can not travel directly, we have the confidence and wish Taiwanese and Chinese would fly to each other earlier. So the waiting for requirment is not equal to admit Taiwan is a independent nation. Taiwan was is and will be one part of China forever.
Tibet is the same. None could made any remarks or comments regarding to Tibet if he or she never came to Tibet or China. Human rights are not the slogan but we should investigate into what happend in Tibet actually. Dalai was not in China Tibet for many years, how does he konw what happened there, we should judge this by ourselves.
I guess the way the C.C.P is playing politics with the lives of Chinese people for the sake of political games is similiar to the way that the C.C.P played with the lives of Taiwanese during the SARS epidemic by blocking Taiwan's meaningful access to the W.H.O.
Dude people. Use common senses... If Taiwan is part of China, why can't those Taiwan Rescue Team just go there without the need for authority request. Is the Chinese government retards?
Taiwan is a free country as made evidence by this. China cannot enter Taiwan and Taiwan cannot enter China without permission. It looks pretty clear to me. People in Taiwan can also VOTE for their leaders in a two party system, have separate currency, and have separate passports. I don't remember China offering help to Taiwan when Taiwan had an huge earthquake, in fact during the whole SARS scare, China tried to bar foreign health officials from entering Taiwan to help. I know which friend I would choose if I had to make a choice.
I am a foreigner currently in China following the news of the quake both on TV and online. I must say there are several doubts that arose from the deadly quake :
1) the chinese authorities initially refusing foreign rescue teams is the MAIN one for me. Knowing that the first 72 hours is critical for the quake victims' survival, refusal to foreign expertise is inexplainable. The few reasons that i can think of is that they are afraid to show to the world that they are lagging in resuce knowledge and they do not have the advanced equipment. So what they have the world largest population? Like what the British resuce team said :'tunnelling their way through is a better option than using cranes to pull up those rubble'. Another reason would be (like what my friend commented which I feel quite ignorant and offensive) is that those foreign teams are merely here on 'holiday', training up their skills and not really concerned in rescuing chinese people.
2) the local earthquake authority did not inform or forewarn that an earthquake is coming. Tectronics has even reported about TEN MONTHS ago that Sichuan (specifically Beichuan) would experience an earthquake. What are the authority doing? An early warning would have save thousands of lives of their OWN people.
3) 80% to 90% of the schools collapsed during this quake. Moreover some of these buildings are much newer than other older buildings which withstood the quake. Parents of those dead children are so aggrieved that they are accusing of the local authorities of corruption together with those shoddy construction companies. Good thing that the chinese government will look into the matter after the resuce works are completed.
4) Donations are pouring in from all over the world. But really how much is really going into saving those stricken people as we know the chinese are known for their corruption and 'cover-up' work. No, I am not discouraging donation but it should be within your limit and your willingness to let it go knowing that it could end up in some official's pockets.
5) TV is only showing heroic acts from those chinese rescuers and those sadness from those victims. They seldom telecast corpses, the aggrieved's comments and other negativities. No freedom of speech on their media even though it has improved alot recently.
I am a chinese, my forefathers are from mainland China. But I do not see eye to eye to all things here. I agree with one Netizen that yes, China will dominate the world in 10 years but with its current political handling, they could spark a BIG unrest in the future.
The Chinese govt. are communists (left-wing) not dictators (right-wing).
Besides whats wrong with being a communist state. Democracy in China would be chaos. 1.4 billion people all having their say. Too hard.
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