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| USAF C-17s touch down at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, PRC |
| 2008-05-18 |
| TWO US military planes carrying aid flew today into southwestern China, the first time Beijing has accepted help from foreign troops since the earthquake struck, officials said. The C-17 aircraft carrying food, electricity generators, blankets and other goods flew into Chengdu, the capital of worst-hit Sichuan province. This is a huge thing for the Chinese, to allow military aircraft into their airspace. They're usually incredibly touchy about these things. The last USAF aircraft to land was the EP-3 that they got to take apart back in 2000. One arrived in the morning and a second was expected to arrive in the early afternoon, said Susan Stevenson, a spokeswoman for the US embassy in Beijing. The planes came from Hawaii and the US Pacific territory of Guam. Admiral Timothy Keating, commander of the US Pacific Command, said the US troops offer “our sincere condolences” to the Chinese people. Keating, he's the comsymp bastard, isn't he? “We will continue to provide any assistance we can to minimise their suffering and loss of life,” he said. China's official Xinhua news agency said that the US military aid totalled $US1.6 million ($1.7 million). “This is first humanitarian aid donated by foreign military forces,” Xinhua said, quoting the nation's Cabinet. By foreign military forces! Wow... It said as of midday yesterday, domestic and international donations in cash or goods had topped 6 billion yuan ($916.16 million), with foreign donations exceeding 1 billion yuan ($152.7 million). I used my influence organizing locally to raise ¥450,000 among the expat community in my city if I do say so myself. :) China agreed to let in foreign rescue workers three days after the May 12 earthquake, which killed an estimated 50,000 people. Another huge step President Hu Jintao yesterday offered thanks to foreign governments and organisations that had provided help after the worst natural disaster in China in a generation. Teams of rescue experts from Japan, Russia, Singapore and South Korea, as well as Taiwan and Hong Kong, have been allowed in to help the effort, although other offers to send personnel from elsewhere have been declined. Yeah and then the Chinese assigned the Japanese team with their high-tech rescue tools to buildings with no sign of life, the Japs have just been pulling out dead bodies so far. Typical. The tragedy struck amid tensions between China and some Western countries ahead of the Beijing Olympics, which China wants to showcase the country's rise on the global stage. The worldwide relay of the Olympic torch was beset by protests over China's human rights record and its handling of recent unrest in Tibet. Burma, a close ally of China, came under strong international criticism for refusing foreign aid after a May 2-3 cyclone, which the military government says left 134,000 people dead or missing. |
| Posted by:gromky |
| #8 ION SCIENCEDAILY > CLIMATE CHANGE CREATING GREEN AND FLOWERING MOUNTAINS. GunsNRoses... |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-05-18 23:29 |
| #7 NOSI.org > OPERATIONS OTHER THAN WAR [OOTH]: BURMA/MYANMAR [Various]. USS Essex, other USN Ships standing offshore waiting on the word from Myanmar's Govt. to ASSIST = INVADE IN THE NAME OF HUMANITARIANSM??? Again, a test for GUAM-WESTPAC + FUTURE US OWG-NWO ala ASIA-PACIFIC "EARTH CHANGES" due to SUN = GLOBAL WARMING. YEAR 2010 and beyond > NOT JUST FOR "US VERSUS RADICAL ISLAM" for OWG-NWO!? *GUAM > Coming KAMALEN = ONLY THE BEGINNING/ LITE STUFF! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-05-18 23:16 |
| #6 ION RUMORMILLNEWS > SHEZHEN CHINA: MARKET STALINISM [Market Communism/Maoism?]; + TOPIX > THE TOTALITARIANISM BEHIND POPULIST SECTARIANISM. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-05-18 23:06 |
| #5 I believe that some of the first aid to arrive was from Taiwan, and from Singapore. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2008-05-18 21:48 |
| #4 I have some contact with China in the course of my daily work these days. I have so far been amazed at the openness and ease of working with them. My most sincere condolences to those who have suffered in what must be a most horrible situation. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2008-05-18 21:48 |
| #3 TOPIX > CHINA DECLARES THREE DAYS OF MOURNING FOR SICHUAN QUAKE VICTIMS + CHINA PLACES NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, DAMS ON DISASTER ALERT. * CHINESE MIL FORUM [paraph] > CHINESE POLICEWOMAN BREASTFEEDS INFANT VICTIM OF QUAKE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-05-18 20:21 |
| #2 Keating, he's the comsymp bastard, isn't he? No, that was Fallon. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-05-18 13:59 |
| #1 WTG with your fund-raising Gromky. Would they accept aid from Taiwan? |
| Posted by: George Smiley 2008-05-18 13:51 |