SAfE - Security Architecture for Europe Crisis and Response-Part III | Crisis and Response-Part III |
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by Wenran Jiang, YaleGlobal Does rapid, open response to the quake disaster mark the birth of a more responsible, transparent China? EDMONTON: The massive earthquake struck China’s Southwest Sichuan province more than a week ago while Beijing was fending off criticism over its hard-line handling of the unrest in Tibet, backtracking on promised free access for journalists throughout China leading up to the summer Olympics and mounting its own hostile attack on the Western media. China’s image in the West was turning negative. And given the military junta’s dismal handling of the cyclone that killed more than 100,000 in Burma only days earlier, the world held its breath on how China would react to its own disaster that so far left more than 55,000 dead and 5 million homeless – the worst in over three decades.            |
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