Is it reasonable Ma said China's open attitude to the quake shows the policy of reform and opening-up in China is bearing fruit ? 您認為馬總統在六四聲明中, 將川震救災視為大陸開放改革的結果

The reaction to the earthquake only shows, that China's leaders realized, that withholding information, after all the Tibetan troubles and in the year of the Olympics, would be a public relations disaster, and ruin it's chances to shine on the international scene... If the earthquake wasn't after Tibet, Myanmar, and before the Olympics, the world might have never heard of it in such detail.... Let's look out how do they behave after August - that's the true test of their openness and progress...

Basing on what has been done during the earthquake my personal observation is that there is a great deal of improvement compared with the days when China was called "the Bamboo Curtain". Mind you somewhere in SiChuan Province there is a Rocket Launching site which has been used to send a number of satellites into space and perhaps some nuclear power stations sited there. That was why at the initial stage (lasted for a few days) China refused help from Japan, Korea when these countries offered to sent workers/experts to join in the rescue. Taiwan was also told not to send any helpers in the begining. Reform or not, I think it has to do with the present set of leaders. Since the opening up from 1978 to now this present set of leaders are the 3rd generation. It has to be different then the days of "Bamboo Curtain". Calling it a Reform? Maybe not so Autocratic than yesteryears.