IB4Z !!!
Please accept my heartfelt prayers for you, your friends and family. What an awful situation to be in.
Well, we all hope everyone pulls through.
Good luck, no American wishes anything but the best to the Chinese people.
Welcome to FR too!
Welcome to FR! You may be the first Chinese Mainland FReeper! I dunno......Hope all goes well for you and your family!..........
My heart and prayers are with the people suffering from this devastating earthquake.
OTOH, this is the third such thread I have seen today. Hmm.
Throughout history — as here in America — MOST citizens of a nation people are most often decent, hard-working folk who simply wish to live their lives surrounded by their families and friends.
Also throughout history, it is not most citizens who are the problem between nations. It is the power-hungry megalomaniacs and elites running them — either by force or so-called “popular election” who are the problem.
This citizen of THIS nation is saddened that so many citizens of YOUR nation have been victims of a devastating earthquake — especially the children — and earnestly hopes you are able to recover from this disaster and move on to rebuild your lives and correct the clearly major problems with your government — as we will the less serious problems with ours.
Peace!
Contrast the Chinese response to this crisis with the Burmese Junta's response to the cyclone.
I read “Red Star Over China”, by Edgar Snow. (I had dinner at his home once, another story.) Snow was an American journalist who met with Mao in the 1930’s prior to America's entry into the War. One anecdote that stuck in my mind was his description of a man whose clothing was on fire in a major Chinese city. As people walked by in seeming indifference, he grabbed a passerby’s coat to extinguish flames. The passerby demanded compensation for his coat. This callousness shocked Snow's American sensibilities.
It was his hope that Mao and Communism would reform what he perceived as the extreme selfishness in the Chinese character. Today, China appears, to an outsider, to have high levels of economic freedom and almost no political freedom, sort of like Singapore. [BTW, my company does some business in China (civilian air traffic control) and the stories of corruption and venality that I hear would make your hair stand on end.]
There a quite a few Chinese immigrants and Chinese-Americans at my company and a number of them I consider to be friends.
I extend my prayers and well wishes for the victims and hope that China's future fulfills her promise and that our two countries can live in peace and mutual respect.
Did the earthquake disable the Internet blockers?
I doubt FREE REPUBLIC is allowed in China, afterall.
Prayers and support for those affected by the earthquake.
Good luck!
We have employees at the Shipyard in Dalian. I hope all is well there as i haven’t recieved word back from them. I pray for you and your family and your countrymen.
We Americans pray for the safety of Chinese citizens.
I’m somewhat surprised you can access FR from inside China.