China Buries Train Wrecks “To Protect National Secrets”
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jul 26, 2011 02:38 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Bizarre, China, Crime, Made in China, Trains
After an accident killing at least 39 people on its new high speed rail system, China has taken the unusual step of burying the wrecked carriages, claiming it needs to protect “national level” technology from being stolen by foreigners, despite widespread accusations that it stole the technology from them in the first place – and the suspicion that it is keen to conceal whatever caused the accident.
Chinese and outsiders alike suspect the authorities are literally covering up the real cause of the accident, though the government has vacillated between calling the wrecked trains “mere scrap metal” and suggesting they contain secret technology the Japanese or others might try to steal back from them.
Adding to the dismay, although 39 bodies have been recovered from the wrecks, many still remain missing and the government itself admits the death toll will rise – bereaved relatives accuse the government of cynically burying them along with the wrecks.
What happened to painstakingly investigating the cause of the accident, or for that matter properly disposing of the ruined trains, is not clear.
The earlier explanation that a lightning strike caused the crash seems to have been dropped, and the Chinese government’s main response has been to simply sack various officials involved in managing the line, to halt service on some lines and order nationwide safety checks, although service on the accident stricken line resumed rapidly.
Shares in China’s rail industries have plummeted after the accident, whilst Taiwan’s high speed rail system has been at pains to stress that its system is the same one Japan uses and is thus completely safe.
Aside from issues over technology theft and safety, there has also been some long-standing concern amongst critics of the system that the line itself is useless due to bad station placement and little more than a failed prestige project – one passenger explains his misgivings after riding it:
“I tried using it instead of the bus to get from Zhuhai to Guangzhou, as it takes 30 minutes rather than 2 hours 30 minutes. But even a month after opening there are no maps of where the stations are on the line’s site.
I had to take a taxi to the station, it took 20 minutes and I found myself at the station, out in the middle of nowhere.
Even when I got to Guangzhou, I had to take a 40 minute ride on the subway to get to the city centre. In the end it took the same amount of time as the bus, which was much cheaper. It’s putting the cart before the horse.”
Whilst not exactly shaping up to be a paragon of safety, the competition in this arena is in any case less than fierce – a few days after the accident, a Henan bus exploded killing at least 41 people in a fiery inferno. Authorities suspect the bus had been carrying hazardous materials.
Under the circumstances, it seems only a matter of time before exploding pirated trains hit the headlines.
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Pai Mei sez:
"Now I have a train buried in my backyard? I already have a shaolin temple's worth of monks buried back there!"
I like how they think we foreigners won't dig some shit up. I'll start digging right now in my backyard in USA and meet you in your backyard in China and we'll see what's up!
They'll probably have 100 soldiers guarding the pit. No shortage of troops in the PRC.
Don't forget Spartacus and the Sun Beneath the Sea.
Yeah, and you'll have to fight through the land of the lost and the mole people at the center of the earth.
I guess that's true, although I think Fred Flintstone fucked a dinosaur once, and I had sex with a girl with a lot of moles one time, I don't know if that counts or not.
well it would be an opertunity to fuck a mole person and tie a dinosar into submission and fuck it too...
who can say they have ever doent that... i mean there are people who can say the fucked a monkey, or a dolphin, but who can say they fucked a mole person or a dinosaur
make sure to fuck the earth's molten core too
wtf are mole people... has that ever been a thing???
Pai Mei speaks the truth!
dont think ya wanna stick anything there
It's a shame. The same thing they did to Terracota army and the Mausoleum of Shi Huangdi. Chinese have an inherent instinct of burying anything to protect it from "greedy" foreigners.
Waiting for poetic justice.
I can see the ending-keima katsuragi
yeah , i really can. The governments actually tryed to bury it because it was still loaded with c4, but some sankaku dude tried to dig it up and it exploded and destroyed all of asia. Just trying to warn ya papuanewguineapunk. My mg exia ignition mode order is still not delivered to me yet.
Guess you should have used your five finger palm exploding heart technique on the government officials
LU
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Only in China would the government think someone would want to steal shit.
More like a way to cover up the evidence of a "China quality" train so that they could sell it to other countries
I finally realized what all this China Quality news keeps reminding me of...
The movie "Pentagon Wars."
That movie truly made me cry back then, and then want to honestly kill some people. It still does to this day. And I finally realized why these articles have infuriated me far, far more than Ishihara's crusade, which by all accounts should make me far angrier because it's attacking ideas, and this is mere idiocy.
But now I understand that in every way China now is far worse than anything Japan has done in the past. It has surpassed even respecting itself and treats its own people as savages. Even with the past atrocities Japan committed to them, at least it made the distinction between itself and others. Somehow I think of the Eddie Izzard joke "...the only reason we let them get away with it is because they killed their own people. And we're sort of 'fine' with that." (He wasn't talking about China, but it's a global point.)
Ironically, China's complete lack of accountability makes me just that much more angry at our own country's (America's) lack of accountability, because we actually have an example of just how quickly things could become that way the minute we let those cocksuckers pretend they're more than the rest of us simply because they had the money to plaster their shit-eating grins on billboards at every corner and spout poetic, meaningless platitudes with no intention of following through.
Fuck modern America. Make it great again and give me a reason to respect it, or it may as well be China Light in a few more years.
Yes, I also sometimes find myself weighing the sleaziness of China in one hand, and my America in the other.
And the fact the train is made of human remains oooooOOOOooooh ghost train
And to hide any evidence of stealing technologies from ex-partners around the world and any possible source code on the trains computer :).
Well, in the past they built entire sections of the Great Wall out of the human remains of the workers who died on-site, so I wouldn't exactly put it past them...
Now we know where Doomtrain hails from. Not from FH. Not from Esthar. Not from Cetra. It's from CHINA.
Sigh, China China China *shakes head*
when will u ever learn.Burying yur crime wont get rid of it.Your suppose to blow it up
"shit" being the key word
The train would only be worth scrap.No one in the west would be interested in the technology because they already have access to newer versions of it.
You can get better high speed train technology to copy by buying a 20 year old TVG from France and reverse engineering it.
At least then you'd also get the safety systems which the Chinese left out.
The west may not be interested... but what about the Third World countries that are likely to buy these?
Ironic... considering we get China quality products more than anyone. If I see Made in China, I cringe... but there's almost nothing I can do. Like 90% of everything we have now is made in china. I shop almost exclusively at Trader Joe's, and they own everything procedure of every food they sell, and even there I have to be wary.
why would third world country try to buy these? most of these countries still dont have economical stability. it'll be a waste of tax money
A few months ago, a plane made in china crash in Irian, Indonesia.
They bought the plane because it is the cheapest one.
*burying chinese products in backyard*
Bzzzt!! *mouse stops working*
Huh?
*looks down*
Made in China
.....crap
*Trys to click add comment*
Doesn't work
*Press Tab and Enter*
Well that is how "Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics" work. It is likely that the poorest Third World countries will suffer the brunt of China quality products.
Well any Third World foolish enough to to buy technology from China is in for a ride.
remember : it's a country where people steal bricks. they can't be too cautious
Just wait a few weeks, that place will be swarming with salvagers.
Not to mention the land owner can't be happy with shit being buried in his field.
china when would you understand that the world wants original goods. It should be pretty obvious to ya now. Think about it. Gunpla modelist only buy from bandai, k. Not TT hongli, Model GD or this gao gao crapthing. We want good quality gundams not some random scrap of plastic that barely even look like a head. either ya stop now or return that $20 i used to buy that kerberos becue hound. TT^TT it broke in two days
I can see the lulz in your comment.
But in seriousness. This is the mentality of every government in the world. Governments from every country is always trying to steal shit from other countries. Then tell other to stop stealing their shit.
no one wants to steal the blue prints of a train that crashed
lolololol, You fail China.... You fail hard.
You don't want exploding trains?!
These are not exploding trains. They are flying trains. There's a difference.
You mean ICBMs?
china galaxy express 999?
just imagine flying trains....then imagine the Chinese knockoff version...
o.o
Why not exploding trains.... everything else there seems to blow up alot. Just search sancon for explosion and china...
And they actually considered selling these to other countries? That's nothing short of industrial terrorism.
Industrial terrorism is hiding a bomb in the train, then selling it. This is industrial genocide by way of stupidity.
You know uh, I could say the same about the fat XBox 360.
But at least it still has a warranty for 3 years. unless that is you get a Chinese knockoff.
So an Xbox 360 killed your family?!
the bomb's range is 360
Holly shit, better get out of China quick! Even the Xbox 360's are dangerous there!
maybe it explode in China...
Well it wouldn't have been intentional, so it can't be called terrorism. I doubt they planned this disaster that's now an embarrassment for both the government and the technology/transportation sectors in China.
Terrorism is "we don't like the look in your eye". You are not even real American if you don't know that! In America.