Ecologically-related catastrophes in Harbin, then Chongqing, now a mine blast in the northeast, killing 68 – all within days.
An explosion at a state-run coal mine in China’s remote northeast killed 68 workers and left another 79 trapped underground, the government said on Monday, as frantic rescue efforts were underway for survivors.
A total of 221 miners were underground when the cave-in occurred about 21:40 on Sunday at the Dongfeng coal mine, near Qitaihe city in Heilongjiang province, not far from the Russian border with Siberia.
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1. Fausta:I’d like to know tow things:
1. Where are the supporters of the Kyoto Protocol every time this type of incident occurs? China is the world’s #1 polluter — and these disasters are related to that.
2. Where are the human rights defenders? As Stephen Pollard points out, There are few more perplexing phenomena than the workings of the modern liberal mind.
. . .
Sir Paul [McCartney] and Lady Heather are so exercised by the plight of some cats and dogs that they will now refuse to travel to China, and are demanding a worldwide boycott of Chinese goods.
As for the imprisonment and judicial murder of thousands of dissident human beings, not a pip from either of them.
Not that anyone should be surprised. It is the same liberal mindset that lavishes praise on Fidel Castro as a hero, rather than condemning him as a tyrant. Castro learnt well from his Soviet backers, and rounds up and imprisons opponents just as they did. In March 2003, 75 prisoners of conscience (as Amnesty has designated them) were sentenced to prison terms of up to 28 years for peacefully opposing the regime
In addition to the human rights abuses on the living, China also has a thriving trade on corpses and organs for transplants, too.
I posted on the subject this morning.
Nov 28, 2005 - 9:07 am 2. Always right:This reminds me of a 1999-2000 heated debate with my Chinese co-workers (I came from Taiwan). They were so sure the new era Chinese economic model could bypass the mistakes of the developed, industrialized West, and just reaped the benefits of leapfrogging from “developing country” to developed status. My argument was that China (resource-wise and human-wise) was not ready then, and it appeared some flaws existed with the model they were so proud of.
Is there any example of developed country that did not go through the “transitional pains” of becoming industrialized? As civilizations leave behind agricultural based economy for manufacturing based substitute, how can we not pay for some kind of “penalties”?
Nov 28, 2005 - 12:03 pm 3. lawhawk:That death toll is now 161 and at least 10 people are still unaccounted for. And in related news, another city had to turn its water supply off as the Songhua River chemical spill made its way towards the Russian border.
Nov 30, 2005 - 8:11 am 4. john:This is a terrible thing happened for the people there.
Dec 3, 2005 - 3:21 am 5. john:This is a terrible thing happened for the people there.
Dec 3, 2005 - 3:29 am