China invites outside help
It’s the first time in history China accepted assistance of foreign rescue team for disaster relief. The first rescue team is from Japan. They sent 60 earthquake rescue experts into the region with disaster relief equipments. The second team will be from Taiwan, then Russia, South Korea and Singapore. China doesn’t really have good experience of handling urgent disaster relief. It’s a good decision. The decision reflects the fact that the search for survivors of earthquake is too much for China to handle. Japan and Taiwan are on the top list that you can see the Chinese government sees the disaster relief as a tactical tool to improve the current relationships with Japan and Taiwan.
Hong Kong does make big donation to Sichuan earthquake. It’s really true that Hong Kong people are very much keen on donating for any people in need regardless in the situation of natural disaster or in the poor condition of third world countries. We live in a lucky place without earthquake, tsunami and storm, so we should share our luck with less fortunate.
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