China Offers Relatively Modest Aid for Typhoon Victims

[TomCADem]

Source: NY Times

As international aid pours into the Philippines for victims of Typhoon Haiyan, China has offered $100,000 in cash, a figure that seems modest compared with its other recent contributions for humanitarian relief abroad.

Qin Gang, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told reporters on Monday that China would send that amount to help the Philippines recover from a disaster that has left as many as 10,000 people dead. Asked if the donation was scaled according to the current chill in relations between China and the Philippines, Mr. Qin declined to answer.

In September, China said it would give a $1.5 million cash grant to Pakistan, its close friend, after an earthquake killed an estimated 500 people in the province of Baluchistan.

After a tropical storm hit the Philippines in 2011, China pledged $1 million in humanitarian aid. That was before relations between the two countries soured over disputed islands and reefs in the South China Sea.


Read more: http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/china-offers-relatively-modest-aid-for-typhoon-victims/

[Wait Wut]

1. Yeah...

...they aren't the humanitarians that they claim to be. Damn, I couldn't even type that without gagging a little.

[geek tragedy]

2. That's not aid, that's an insult. What a bunch of assholes. nt

[MyNameGoesHere]

3. Ah yes the "I am a good guy" bidding wars has started.

They did this same crap for the tsunami relief. Let's see what Taiwan "bids" to shame China.

I say fuck em all. No persons survival should have to rely on fucking assholes. I am surprised our own country hasn't stepped up a little more. For decades the American presence there fed on the Filipinos like a parasite. They should send more out of shame.

[Phlem]

4. Doesn't china have a land dispute with the Philippines?

Not saying they would give anymore if they didn't but it makes sense.



-p