Cracks in the Republic

So there's been an earthquake and this huge chemical spill in the bowels of the good ol' sleeping dragon. My guess is that the latter is indicative of the kind of thing we'll continue to see from China. They are simply growing too fast and are too big not to make huge fucking mistakes on a regular basis. I read somewhere that they were going to punish the people responsible for the spill. That's really going to help. It's like Mussolini getting the trains to run on time or something; but you can't just put a gun to people's heads and expect the economy to grow. Got to finish the first draft of my thesis, ciao.