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...Nargis ripped into Burma, has cast the Chinese government in a different light. By blocking foreign aid, Burma's paranoid military junta demonstrated just how impotent and callous to the suffering of its citizens a repressive autocracy can be. But even Beijing's critics expressed admiration for China's swift response to the quake. Some 120,000 soldiers and paramilitary troops were deployed along with thousands of vehicles and aircraft, and China gracefully accepted foreign aid, including rescue teams from Taiwan, Singapore and even old rival Japan. Some of China's most xenophobic bloggers expressed astonishment at the sympathy shown...
...were a little premature," says Mark Donahue, president of the city's Fraternal Order of Police. "It's hard to believe he'd have gotten to know those folks on a personal basis in such a short period of time." New managers often surround themselves with loyalists, but Weis' swift move appears to have deepened his officers' disillusionment...
...Allowing the cameras to roll was unusual for Beijing. But far more significant was China's swift mobilization of an army of more than 100,000 relief workers, including soldiers, police and medical teams, to save those who could be saved, to provide food and shelter to those who lost everything, and to keep the peace. Chinese media on May 14 estimated that there were 25,000 people trapped in collapsed structures in the quake zone, including more than 18,000 in Mianyang, a city of 5 million. In Dujiangyan (pop. 600,000), where row after row of apartment buildings...
...opprobrium heaped on Burma's rulers for their callous and incompetent handling of the killer cyclone earlier this month, Beijing will want to demonstrate that it has "the capability and readiness to handle an emergency like this," says Huang Jing, a China scholar at the National University of Singapore. Swift and transparent handling of the tragedy would also mark another step in Beijing's evolution from an unfeeling regime that suppressed bad news--as it tried to do with the SARS outbreak in 2003--to one more responsive to the needs of its people...
...more than a dozen white officers kicking and beating three black men who were arrested as suspects in a shooting on a city street. "This was just a very unusual situation and I think the public reacted to it as an unusual situation," says Mayor Michael Nutter, who was swift to denounce the beatings after the tape showed on local television. "It doesn't represent anywhere near the norm in Philadelphia... We acted very directly, very swiftly, we told the truth and we'll let the investigation play out and let the chips fall where they...