+ Y$ l; `- o6 z2 q9 T4 H6 o6 `* Z, B0 g4 P5 q6 R3 F B6 d . q1 K1 M: j' r" T. u& rPrime Minister Wen Jiabao, bowing, at the scene of a deadly July 23 train wreck near Wenzhou. The crash, and subsequent official efforts to suppress information, have stirred anger in China.6 a5 o Y* d/ O z( u/ ^
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& R# ^: \1 c3 j1 mBEIJING — China’s prime minister, Wen Jiabao, stood amid funerary wreaths in Wenzhou, near where a high-speed train accident claimed 40 lives late last month, and pledged an “open and transparent” government inquiry into the disaster. “The key,” he said, “is whether the people can get the truth.” , {0 j% S6 _; q0 M3 z T) U. O: ~0 D3 M- v5 p( V5 M |) G
The next day, censors silenced the news media’s dogged reporting on railway negligence and corruption, then started censoring posts on microblogs that had stoked outrage over the crash., U) M- R; h( d; [, @* n6 _1 s
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By last week, the government inquiry itself was accused of being rigged, run by a panel that included the Railways Ministry’s second in command and loyalist experts. % k" E/ ?. z; s! k U3 ~* Y5 s# ` H |) X/ dSuch indignities are not new. As Mr. Wen enters the twilight of a decade as China’s third-ranked leader, he appears to be struggling to remain relevant in a political system that covets his benevolent public image but has little use for his ideas.作者: wahahaha 时间: 2011-8-10 09:50