[Newsbot]

Title: 500,000 people snowed under in northwestern China
Category: World
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-01-18 15:49:07

[KorbenDeck]

China has plenty of money and resources to help itself. Don't go begging

[Brenda]

What are you saying? That we shouldn't buy "made in China" blankets and generators and send them there?

[ShepherdsDog]

It's not like the Chinese give a shit if the Uighurs are buried under snow.

$1:

Temperatures in parts of Xinjiang are set to plunge to minus 43 Celsius by midweek, according to Xinjiang Meteorological Station forecaster Wei Rongqing.

Wei said snow was falling in the region's Altay district, where accumulations had already risen to 94 centimetres. Altay lies in China's extreme northwestern corner, 2,600 kilometres northwest of Beijing, the capital.

I'm sure they are burning coal as quick as they can right now to increase the rate of global warming.

[bootlegga]

KorbenDeck KorbenDeck:

China has plenty of money and resources to help itself. Don't go begging

That's a shitty attitude...they helped out during the 2004 Tsunami and even sent aid to the richest country on earth after Hurricane Katrina, so why shouldn't aid be sent if there is crisis.

$1:

People's Republic of China
On September 2, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it will offer $5 million along with emergency supplies, including 1,000 tents, 600 generators, bed sheets, immediately for disaster relief. China also offered to send medical care and rescue workers if they were needed. This aid package consisting of 104 tons of supplies later arrived in Little Rock, Arkansas. A chartered plane carrying the supplies arrived on September 7.

The only question that needs to be asked is whether or not it is serious enough to send international aid (like the Sichuan earthquake in 2008 was).

[QBall]

$1:

Storms in China's far western Xinjiang flattened or damaged about 100,000 homes and more than 15,000 head of livestock were killed by the cold front that set in Sunday night.

They obviously don't get much snow usually. Of course it could explain where all of Toronto's snow went this year.

[BartSimpson]

Global warming, of course, explains the unusual amount of snow and cold weather.

[Brenda]

QBall QBall:

$1:

Storms in China's far western Xinjiang flattened or damaged about 100,000 homes and more than 15,000 head of livestock were killed by the cold front that set in Sunday night.

They obviously don't get much snow usually. Of course it could explain where all of Toronto's snow went this year.

Again, made in China...