CHINA

The Chinese have experienced a natural disaster that has shaken the world over. This tornado has claimed 15,000 lives already and before the rubble is cleared I believe there will be many more lives lost, and many more mourning families. Just like the grandfather at the beginning of the article many families will soon realize that their young son or daughter will never return home again. Like many Asian cultures they believe in the superstition that this happened because they are being punished for some wrongs in their past. How much of that is true … I cannot honestly say but I do know this, these people are suffering greatly and despite the way that their government is, in terms of the oppression that some groups of people are going through, they need to react to save those who are savable before the death toll climbs. They do not, I’m sure, want a repeat if 1976 when they lost 240,000 people. Now is the time for this government to shine and show that these people can stand up to unfortunate events. But if they are by some chance being punished for something… is it coincidence that these bad things happen when the government is in too much control and does not democratically allow the people to rule themselves?