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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Why would anyone want to steal technology that failed?
This isn't the first bad thing I've heard about China today. Anyone hear about the Chinese couple that sold their kids so they could fund their MMO gaming?
http://abcnewsradioonline.com/world-news/chinese-couple-sells-all-three-kids-to-play-online-games.html
Selling kids to play online games? Blame facebook with their shitty yet addictive farmville games.
I blame parents for not teaching their children proper response to addictive stimuli because "hey, we can just ban drugs right? much easier".
Can't really say that has something to do with China Quality. In Korea there was a case of a couple being too per-occupied with an MMORPG that they forgot to feed their baby until it died due to starvation. Ironically enough that game has something to do with raising a virtual child. There's even one similar case in Japan.. but I can't really remember what it was about.
You don't need to bury it, China. We all know the secret. The technology ia stolen.
They're hurting themselves too much trying to conceal it. We should just laugh at them when they fuck up like this. But lets support the victims of their greed.
And someone will dig them up and sell it to another country?
Several Weeks Before:
Systems Integrity Maintenance Man: God, the inner workings for this train are a "wreck"
Chinese Gov't Official: Seems fine to me, hey think you just want to give this thing the ok? We have food in back.
Systems Integrity Maintenance Man: Dont "derail" the topic, this thing wont last long the way it is.
Chinese Gov't Official: Seems fine to me, your fired. We'll get someone new.
Systems Integrity Maintenance Man: I hope this train goes off a bridge. *walks off*
Must go to China and steal their stolen technology! because obviously secondhand information is that much better than the inventors schematics who actually worried about the saftey of their passangers and studied this stuff.
Sounds like something a dog would do.
China is bitch.
Oh really, what's that exactly.
He's refering to a dog burring it's bone so some one else cant find it.
fucking Chinese dog
wo wo, lets not get racist now.
The goverment is the bad one, not people, but maybe their people have a mistake for let that goverment run like that.
@anon 08:49
Telling someone on Sankaku to not get racist is like going on a neo nazi site and telling someone not to hate on the blacks lol. But that's internet for you.
Though it's better than 2ch I guess. Almost every topic that is brought up which has no relation to Korea or China, will have racist comments regarding the Koreans or Chinese. They really do like blaming Koreans for everything @_@;
You can't do anything to the government in China, if you live in China you'll know that. We have been suffering the government enough, but this can't be solved by revolution but evolution, which would be done by the generation of us.
BTW, racist comments are always to be ignored.
Only in China would the government think someone would want to steal shit.
"shit" being the key word
More like a way to cover up the evidence of a "China quality" train so that they could sell it to other countries
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 :).
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
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...
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.
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?
Well any Third World foolish enough to to buy technology from China is in for a ride.
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.
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
*burying chinese products in backyard*
A few months ago, a plane made in china crash in Irian, Indonesia.
They bought the plane because it is the cheapest one.
Bzzzt!! *mouse stops working*
Huh?
*looks down*
Made in China
.....crap
*Trys to click add comment*
Doesn't work
*Press Tab and Enter*
You don't want exploding trains?!
These are not exploding trains. They are flying trains. There's a difference.
just imagine flying trains....then imagine the Chinese knockoff version...
o.o
china galaxy express 999?
You mean ICBMs?
Why not exploding trains.... everything else there seems to blow up alot. Just search sancon for explosion and china...
lolololol, You fail China.... You fail hard.
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.
no one wants to steal the blue prints of a train that crashed
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.
remember : it's a country where people steal bricks. they can't be too cautious
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
Silly China, it's not a secret if everyone knows about it...
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.
Yeah, and you'll have to fight through the land of the lost and the mole people at the center of the earth.
Don't forget Spartacus and the Sun Beneath the Sea.
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
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.
make sure to fuck the earth's molten core too
Pai Mei speaks the truth!
dont think ya wanna stick anything there
wtf are mole people... has that ever been a thing???
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.
@PhillB : "Waiting for poetic justice."
Their Enviroment.
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
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