Typhoon Haiyan: China gives less aid to Philippines than Ikea

[Jlaw]

I fucking hate our country flip-flopping strategy and the whole department needs to be fired! It is an embarrassment to all Chinese people. We gain absolutely nothing and the West just kick us again in the process. What a fucking loser PR department.

CCP is good at economics issue, but suck at everything else.

 

[elis]

They HJ-8 is not bad anyway

 

[asianamerican]

IKEA need to advertise it self. All those home destroyed need to restock with Ikea furniture. This is more about Western media bashing China.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

CCP is good at economics issue, but suck at everything else.

Also military, since you won't expect a government like KMT to have stronger military than CPC in its governance of China.

 

[KAL-EL]

The people who stink are the JEW USA who make blood bath everywhere and take advantage of the cameras to play the good guys for few dollars

It's a fake aid, we remember the scandal of Katrina uragan

Krueger is a JEW name i think

I think its your medication time my good friend elis

 

[UnChosen]

Talk about stupid PR.

Next time, promise 10 billion dollars then create some internal government drama about budget conflicts and stall the payment until everyone forgot about the disaster, and quietly cancel the majority of aid without anyone noticing.

Either that, or just delivers some "premium" relief supply accessed at 10 billion dollars, never mind that it cost only 1 million at home.

 

[Zero_wing]

Man nice

 

[walle]

To be frank, China has always stated that they will reassess their commitment depending on situation as it develops. Which frankly has gotten worse, because the Pinoy government is just incompetent.

 

[Okemos]

Talk about stupid PR.

Next time, promise 10 billion dollars then create some internal government drama about budget conflicts and stall the payment until everyone forgot about the disaster, and quietly cancel the majority of aid without anyone noticing.

Either that, or just delivers some "premium" relief supply accessed at 10 billion dollars, never mind that it cost only 1 million at home.

Chinese foreign ministry is a laughing stock in China. They have no idea how to operate in international arenas. We Chinese even have some jokes about them. Due to income disparity and huge poverty in some parts of China, it's only natural that we sent 1/10 aids USA sent since every individual Chinese has as much responsibility as every individual American. In this sense we Chinese are as responsible as Americans.

Also China has always donated huge amount of financial aids to Africa and disaster stricken areas, what a piece of crap.

 

[Jlaw]

Chinese foreign ministry is a laughing stock in China. They have no idea how to operate in international arenas. We Chinese even have some jokes about them. Due to income disparity and huge poverty in some parts of China, it's only natural that we sent 1/10 aids USA sent since every individual Chinese has as much responsibility as every individual American. In this sense we Chinese are as responsible as Americans.

Also China has always donated huge amount of financial aids to Africa and disaster stricken areas, what a piece of crap.

But Africa has resources, Philippines only have bananas and bar girls. Plus the typhoon was a gift from heaven for CPC but failed to capitalize.

 

[S10]

We are not beggars sir you people can not be trusted and this act to save face nothing more



Blah blah insert racism here

Give back our money then if you don't want it.

 

[WuMaoCleverbot]

But Africa has resources, Philippines only have bananas and bar girls. Plus the typhoon was a gift from heaven for CPC but failed to capitalize.

Read this:

China’s $100,000 aid ‘measly,’ judged by its Phl mining take
GOTCHA By Jarius Bondoc (The Philippine Star) | Updated November 20, 2013 - 12:00am

Talk about fair-weather friend. “As hundreds of thousands of Filipinos struggled to find food, water, shelter and the bodies of loved ones in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, China quickly dipped into its world-leading $3.7 trillion of currency reserves and came up with … all of $100,000.” That Bloomberg news lead captured the general recoil at how the world’s second-largest economy treats an Asian neighbor. Other headlines stated “cheapskate,” “paltry,” “miserly” and, in one mainland-Chinese daily, “ungenerous.”

Beijing could not have missed the effects of history’s strongest ever typhoon to make landfall. Global networks had tracked Haiyan’s ruin of the Philippines, where three-fourths of families have Chinese blood. Undeterred by Philippine mountain ranges, the storm crossed over the sea to hit China. One drowned and seven went missing in Hainan, and many areas were flooded in Guangxi provinces. Beijing came upon a chance to show amity and soft power. Yet it chose to be petty, due to sea disputes with Manila. With trade overshooting $36 billion in 2012, China often calls the Philippines “partner.”

In the first hours of Filipinos’ distress, the world sprang to the rescue. The US rushed in an aircraft carrier group laden with emergency crews and $20-million relief. Britain, Japan, and Korea sent trucks, food, and cash of, in turn, $16 million, $10 million, and $5 million. Donations poured in from Australia, $28 million; European Union, $17 million; Vatican, $4 million; Indonesia, $2 million; and Taiwan, which China labels its province, $200,000.

Private outfits across the globe gave too, among the first Coca Cola, $2.5 million; NBA, $500,000; Journey rock band, $350,000; and L.A. Lakers, $150,000. Media outlets compared the amounts to China’s. Stung by criticisms Beijing later announced to follow up with $1.4 million in tents and blankets. By then the initial donors had doubled or tripled their pledges, with still more states, heeding the UN plea for $301 million for preliminary rehab. News persisted that China’s additional aid was but half the $2.7 million from the Swedish furniture maker Ikea.

Manila graciously thanked Beijing’s aid. The nine million stricken folk need all the help they can get. Chinese think tanks rued the ruin to China’s reputation as Asia’s fastest rising power.

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Opinion ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1
Haiyan’s destruction is both natural and man-made. Its 320-kph winds toppled substandard structures, and 15-foot waves lashed coastal towns denuded of mangrove forest cover. Although most vulnerable to climate change-induced weather disturbances, the Philippines goes on despoiling its natural wealth. China plays a big role in the Philippines’ environmental ravage.

In Leyte province, worst hit by Haiyan, China’s Nicua Mining Corp. for years has been sucking up black sand from the beaches, for magnetite. Overturned in the process are corals, around which fish and mollusks feed and spawn. Displaced fishermen have taken to dynamiting, and making charcoal out of felled mangroves, compounding the environmental ruin.

Foreigners are forbidden from mining in the Philippines, except for special financial-technical assistance. But Nicua was able to skirt the ban by buying out a local concessionaire in Macarthur town. Too, Filipinos and foreigners alike are barred from seaside black sand mining. But the giant Chinese miner was allowed because its site supposedly is a farm far inland. From there it financed poor coastal dwellers in other towns to gather black sand, small-scale. It then took over them, hauling sand onto barges, large-scale. Chinese miners do not play by the rules, employing bribery to extract and export Philippine minerals illegally.

Magnetite from black sand sustains China’s steel, telecoms, and medical and audio equipment industries. Because angry locals disrupt Nicua’s harmful operations, more Chinese miners poach black sand elsewhere. In Cagayan, Ilocos, Pangasinan, and Zambales in Luzon, they routinely pay off local officials to look the other way as they ship away the mineral. Lawmen last Aug. raided such a Chinese operation, of Huaxia Trading & Mining Corp. in Cagayan. Beijing’s embassy bailed out the 18 Chinese poachers, whereupon they sailed for home. China’s Lian Xing Stone Carving Co. remains, illicitly burrowing sand in Luzon.

In Homonhon Island, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, first to be hit by Haiyan, Peng Cheng Metallic Resources Inc. mines nickel and chromite. If magnetite operations ruin seashores, nickel-chromite mines denude forests and muddy the rivers. Mountains are leveled to extract the ore, for loading in bulk cargo vessels to China.

Filipinos may mine under production-sharing agreements with the government. Peng Cheng elbowed its way into Homonhon five years ago by buying into the local miner. In payolas, mining regulators and town officials ignore islanders’ pleas that the zone long had been awarded to them for pasturing. Also into ferronickel in Eastern Samar is China’s Rock Check Steel Co. Ltd.

Nickel and chromite too feed China’s steel mills. In Zambales, three Chinese miners have permits from national authorities for nickel in Botolan town down south. But Wei Wei Group, Jiangxi Rare Earth Metals and Tungsten Group, and Nihao Mineral Resources are insatiable. Via five subsidiaries, they use 93 “small-scale” Filipino miners as fronts to extract ore up north in Sta. Cruz and Masinloc, and in adjacent Infanta, Pangasinan. The governor of Zambales had signed the “small-scale” mining permits all in one day in 2011.

Chinese zinc, gold, silver, copper, iron, cobalt, manganese, chromite, and nickel mines abound in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The five in northern Zambales are most injurious. Hillsides have been laid barren, rivers and coastal waters muddied. Dust from extractions and emissions from thousands of dump trucks blacken the air. Sta. Cruz and Masinloc townsfolk suffer higher than national average incidences of intestinal and lung ailments. One of the five fronts, LNL Archipelago Minerals Inc., runs a port in Sta. Cruz from which four shiploads of ore depart weekly.

Beijing’s sea rows with Manila and Hanoi are all about mineral and marine wealth. Ironically, Manila abets China’s virtual invasion of mines within Philippine land territory: Leyte, Samar, Luzon. Flourishing from Philippine metal extractions, China’s steel and related industries build warships, weapons, and surveillance systems to grab Philippine shoals. Chinese vessels have fenced off Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough Shoal) off Zambales, where Hainanese launches catch more than the $100,000-Chinese aid, daily in food fish and corals. Jiangxi Group also mines nickel and cobalt in Palawan, hard hit too by Haiyan, and where China is itching to grab yet more banks.

On record China derives from the Philippine $4 billion of minerals per year. Nickel ore alone is 13 million metric tons a year. The figure could double if the illegal Chinese mines are counted. They deprive the Philippines of taxes and royalties. And that’s no way to treat a friend.


China’s $100,000 aid ‘measly,’ judged by its Phl mining take | Opinion, News, The Philippine Star | philstar.com

 

[帅的一匹]

These thread is meaningless and should be closed. No one will donate tons of cash to his rivalry.
China navy send LPD to Phillipine to rescue
China will send medical care ship and ground rescue team to phillipine

Don't forget the money USA goverment donating to Phillipine is lent from China.

 

[livingdead]

its a difficult choice for chinese leaders to make, on one hand they dont want to apprear too lenient (or anger chinese citizen who are against giving any aid at all) and on other hand they want to influence and build allies and this current episode was bad PR for them.

 

[WuMaoCleverbot]

Nobody really care. I hope you USA are doing your "inherently duty" to build your Philippines. It is not our job.[/quote]

Read this:

Which nations are most responsible for climate change?

top CO2 10 emitters by this measure are:

1. China: 9697 million tonnes (MT) or 28.6%
2. US: 5420 MT or 16.0%
3. India: 1967 MT or 5.8%
4. Russia: 1829 MT or 5.4%
5. Japan: 1243 MT or 3.7%
6. Germany: 810 MT 2.4%
7. South Korea: 609 MT or 1.7%
8. Canada: 555 MT or 1.6%
9. Indonesia: 490 MT or 1.4%
10. Saudi Arabia: 464 MT or 1.4%

Which nations are most responsible for climate change? | Environment | theguardian.com