美国媒体密切关注中国灾情 积极评价救灾行动

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美国媒体密切关注中国灾情 积极评价救灾行动

http://www.sina.com.cn 2008年05月16日00:15 中国新闻网
　　中新社华盛顿五月十五日电 (记者 邱江波) 美国媒体持续全方位关注四川灾情，主流媒体的报道对中国救灾行动赞赏有加。
　　在第一时间报道了发生在中国四川的大地震后，美国媒体今天持续关注灾区的伤亡情况和中国救援行动。除美联社和CNN等媒体记者是从灾区现场发回大量的详细图文报道和电视画面，其他多数媒体则综合中国媒体和外电的信息。
　　美联社和CNN今天继续播发记者在现场发回来的报道，大多把镜头聚焦到感人的故事上。美联社在一篇报道中讲述了中国救援人员不顾自身危险，在都江堰震后废墟中经过五十个小时，成功救出一位怀孕八个月的三十四岁妇女的故事。而CNN记者昨晚在四川灾区现场的报道时赞扬灾民忍耐和坚强，报道的记者说，他没有听到半句对中国政府的抱怨。
　　美联社还特别介绍了震中附近十二名美国人被发现安全脱险。这十二人隶属于一个世界野生动物保护基金会下的野生动物团体，地震后第二天，他们终于通过卫星电话与外界取得了联系，他们告诉美国媒体，他们很安全，大熊猫们也很安全。美联社通过流泪、哽咽、对废墟中的幸存者喊话、拥抱孤儿、安慰幸存者等一系列细节，赞扬中国总理温家宝的亲民形象。并表示对中国政府处理紧急情况的能力抱有信心。
　　今天的《华盛顿邮报》以“中国救援与时间赛跑”为题，积极肯定中国政府排出大量军队和武警排除困难进入灾区抢救幸存者的魄力。而在昨天，《华盛顿时报》发表社论赞扬“中国迅速应对震灾赢得世界赞誉”。当地主流媒体此次积极正面报道了中国政府的快速救援行动，用各自的方式，向美国读者讲述了救援者一个又一个不顾自身危险成功救出废墟中的幸存者的故事。
　　报道引述专家评论说，中国的成功，表明它有能力克服目前的这一危机。
　　美国媒体还赞扬了中国媒体在此次灾难报道中的表现。美联社说，中国媒体这次取消了正常的节目播出，二十四小时不间断聚焦这场全民族的灾难。那些遭受地震破坏和死亡的镜头被媒体披露出来，连同中国总理温家宝的救灾指挥一同被显著报道。(完)

 

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可能他们已经有所领教撒谎会超来什么。

 

[mds]

纽约时报：西方监视地震中核设施的损坏

Western Experts Monitor China’s Nuclear Sites for Signs of Earthquake Damage

By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Published: May 16, 2008

China’s main centers for designing, making and storing nuclear arms lie in the shattered earthquake zone, leading Western experts to look for signs of any damage that might allow radioactivity to escape.

A senior federal official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the issue, said the United States was using spy satellites and other means to try to monitor the sprawling nuclear plants. “There appear to be no immediate concerns,” the official said.
Nonetheless, “it’s potentially a serious issue,” Hans M. Kristensen, a nuclear arms expert at the Federation of American Scientists, a private group in Washington, said in an interview. “Radioactive materials could be released if there’s damage.”
China began building the plants in the 1960s, calculating that their remote locations would make them less vulnerable to enemy attack.
China’s main complex for making nuclear warhead fuel, codenamed Plant 821, is beside a river in a hilly, forested part of the earthquake zone. It is some 15 miles northwest of Guangyuan in Sichuan Province. The vast site holds China’s largest production reactor and factories that mine its spent fuel for plutonium — the main ingredient for modern nuclear arms.
Jeffrey G. Lewis, an arms control specialist at the New America Foundation, a nonprofit research group in Washington, said the military buildings that make up Plant 821 were probably unusually strong compared with civilian structures.
“I’d rather have been in the reactor building than a grade school” on Monday when the quake struck, he said. The site’s various plants “were built as military facilities, and so I wouldn’t be surprised if, by and large, they came through pretty well,” he added.
Plutonium is a radioactive toxin that can be made into compact nuclear arms that are relatively easy to deliver. For a given size of nuclear blast, plutonium weapons are smaller and lighter than those made of uranium, the other main material used as fuel for nuclear warheads.
It is unclear if the plutonium-production reactor at Plant 821 has operated recently. Mr. Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists said China was expanding its nuclear forces to 240 warheads in its overall stockpile from around 200.
Reactors are usually rigged to shut down in an earthquake, and it is unclear if the Plant 821 reactor could undergo the same kind of disaster that struck the Chernobyl reactor in 1986. It spewed radioactivity across large parts of Russia and Europe.
“From what I know, they’re a really brilliant people and I think they do things the right way,” said Danny B. Stillman, a former director of intelligence at Los Alamos National Laboratory and an expert on the Chinese nuclear program because of extensive travels in the 1990s to its secretive sites and bases.
Closer to the epicenter of the quake that struck Monday is Mianyang, a science city whose outskirts house the primary laboratory for the design of Chinese nuclear arms. It is considered the Chinese equal to Los Alamos. Known as the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, it too, Mr. Stillman said, houses a reactor, though a smaller one meant for research.
In China, the academy leads in the research, development and testing of nuclear weapons and has centers throughout Sichuan Province.
“I think this is not a no-cost moment for their labs but is not necessarily a human health risk,” Dr. Lewis of the New America Foundation, who visited Mianyang last summer, said of the academy’s main facilities. “We should keep in mind that there is certainly stuff out in the hills that might have been more seriously damaged.”
North of the city, for example, is a plant that shapes plutonium into the compact spheres that ignite nuclear weapons.
Nuclear experts said that closer to the epicenter of the earthquake, in rugged hills a two-hour drive west of Mianyang, China runs a highly secretive center that houses a prompt-burst reactor. It mimics the rush of speeding subatomic particles that an exploding atom bomb spews out in its first microseconds.
North in an even more rugged and inaccessible region, nuclear experts said, China maintains a hidden complex of large tunnels in the side of a mountain where it stores nuclear arms.
“It’s very close to the epicenter,” said one specialist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because, to the best of his knowledge, the exact location of the secret complex had never been publicly disclosed.
Dr. Stillman, the former intelligence chief at Los Alamos, said he had immense regard for the Chinese weapons scientists and assumed that many of their nuclear plants had been built to ride out the pounding of an earthquake or other disasters, natural or man-made.
“All the Chinese I met in the program were really brilliant,” he said. “So I think they do it the right way. I hope.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/world/asia/16nuke.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

 

[mds]

毫无人性的的美国媒体！

作者: 天理公道

已经无耻到这个地步了，给那些今夜是美国人的哈美狗们看看美国人的嘴脸吧！

这是克利夫兰报纸贴的漫画，居然可以拿这么悲惨的事情当玩笑来开，起诉这家报纸！
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As a group of Chinese immigrants living in greater Cleveland area, we are deeply disappointed in the Plain Dealer for its publication of the May 14th Editorial Cartoon depicting China as an ugly giant rat with its tail broken by an earthquake. We can only infer that it refers to the recent earthquake in Sichuan Province where the ensuing death toll has exceeded 20,000 and is still climbing. While the world pours its heart out to the victims of the quake, we are left puzzled by the undertone of this cartoon: does it, and by association the Plain Dealer, imply that the people of China is one big rat deserving to have it back broken by the quake? Has the Plain Dealer no compassion for the victims who are still buried in those collapsed building?

We take it that the Cartoonist and the Plain Dealer justify such a derogatory drawing partially on the fact that this is the year of rat in the Chinese Zodiac. Let’s face it: everybody hates rat. Maybe the cartoonist wonders how could the Chinese pick, out of all lovely animals, rat? Perhaps in its own way the Chinese shows that it is possible to appreciate an animal, let alone a race of human being, not for what it does to, or for, us but for what it is on its own sake. Rat is as intelligent and hardworking as any animal, if not more so, even though it may not be esthetically appealing to us. Ironically, it seems, the Plain Dealer could find in its own cartoon a lesson of tolerance and compassion.

Zhiqiang Gao, Interim President, The Chinese Professionals and Entrepreneurs Association (An organization of Cleveland Chinese immigrants)

P.S. the cartoon in PD on May 14th

 

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纽约时报：西方监视地震中核设施的损坏

Western Experts Monitor China’s Nuclear Sites for Signs of Earthquake Damage

By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Published: May 16, 2008


说不说大家肚子里都知道，可能说的人还傻点，不说的人只想派国际救援队的人才阴着呢

 

[winternow]

毫无人性的的美国媒体！

作者: 天理公道

已经无耻到这个地步了，给那些今夜是美国人的哈美狗们看看美国人的嘴脸吧！



这是克利夫兰报纸贴的漫画，居然可以拿这么悲惨的事情当玩笑来开，起诉这家报纸！

起诉什么？诉讼请求是什么？