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The premier saves a childPosted by Eric Mu on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 4:49 PM
 Wuhan Evening News February 17, 2009 Wen Jiabao is one of the few genuinely beloved faces in a government that is so often criticized by its own citizens for being corrupt. The premier's enviable popularity is not without basis: Today's newspapers reported that Wen used his influence to save a child with leukemia. The short report translated below appeared in today's Wuhan Evening News, and it was also featured on top of Xinhua's own website:
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Comments on The premier saves a child
presumably this child was somehow more deserving than the hundreds of millions of other children without health insurance or access to basic health care, no?
amen, slowboat.
Why only save 1 child, Wen? You have the power to save millions if you did more than kiss babies in Sichuan...
he can't "save millions", or at least in short term, all he can is boosting morals to motivate others to do, thats it.
PR stunt - come on, Wen waiting for a train with the proles? Not a chance.
Mind you, got to love the 'man of the people' and 'healing touch of the messiah' combo. Genius.
Very boring news.Just an exmple.
How touching. Must have been 100% spontaneous on Wen's part. I'm sure he even told his handlers to not let the story get into the media because that would have been manipulating "the people's" feelings...
...and you know what happens when the people feel pain - Wen cries.
Love the shots a few weeks back of him cooking all dressed up in the apron and stuff - he's sort of like a leadership action figure...
actually, can someone make those, I'd buy one
@Cynic: I'm with you on that!
Leukemia is caused by many factors, mainly: nutrition (lack of adequate plant foods, plus cancer-causing animal products like milk), environmental pollution, and, afterwords, an inadequate health care system. Wen, more than anybody else in China, has power to influence all three issues. But the State Council is a bureaucratic mammoth, and policy goals that might positively affect one area might negatively affect another. It’s fairly clear that Wen is a fairly weak PM, but even if he weren’t, the issue of leukemia, and health care in general, wouldn’t necessarily be all that easy to solve. So, I’d give him a break. Helping one person for a photo-op is better than nothing.
if it was done by other leaders, i wld think it is just a 'show', just like those leaders 'dressed up' to plant crops with peasants...not only Chinese leader kiss crying babies, western presidents marched out to shake babies in order to make people vote for them....
i believe that if Wen can reform the medical system in China, he will do it. yes, certainly he can't save every single Leukemia patient in China.But this accident will of course have impact on him. He cries like a real human being, and I like the fact that he isn't a superman, but a super kind old man.
don't be too harsh on him, and don't throw shoes to him again....
"western presidents marched out to shake babies in order to make people vote for them...."
Okay, I don't mean to make fun of your English, but this is soooo funny... "vote for me or I'm gonna shake your baby!" I'm dying....