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.
thanks for you 4ll about china
and Red Star Over China was written in 1940s
china has made some progress during the past 70 years
we can not stay at yesterday
each country has the problems of corruption and venality,
do you remember the Enron Corporation?
in deed, chinese people has less freedom in politism, but not “no”, we can not stop our steps for we have problems.
i am in shenzhen, china