A few weeks ago I posted about how the earthquake in China had left many parents childless when their only children were killed. Now, according to this New York Times article, China has lifted the one-child policy for “parents whose only child was killed or grievously injured in the May 12 earthquake.”
Is the Chinese government really concerned about these parents? Or are they hoping that by the lifting the policy they will mollify the angry parents of the reported 10,000 children killed when their schools collapsed?
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Please help those helpless commoners by asking the following Qs.
*Why the newer schools collapsed worse than the older privately owned buildings in the same town?
Kickbacks taken again?
*Why most of the govt. officials’ kids studying abroad full-time with no jobs drive expensive cars to schools?
Where the money came from?
*Do those well-fed old men in Beijing really think that PRC will be a first-class strong nation soon while the common practice of taking kickbacks/bribery by govt. officials go on as usual?
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