Tuesday, September 13, 2005
The Beginning Of The End?
There are those that feel that the seeds of the end of the Soviet Union were sown in the public disclosure of what happened at Chernobyl. Once the information floodgates were open and the Soviet public learned how often their government was capable of screwing up, well the rest is history.
I wonder if this spells the beginning of the end for communist China?
I wonder if this spells the beginning of the end for communist China?
China will no longer consider death tolls and other relevant information about natural disasters to be state secrets, an official said Monday, saying the move was aimed at boosting government transparency.Only time will tell, but it will be a heck of a laboratory for those that hold such about the Soviet.
