Business paused in Beijing, the home of the next Olympic games, when buildings around the capital swayed for several minutes during an earthquake that struck about 700 miles away.
People evacuated buildings and traffic was clogged with evacuees on the streets and sidewalks of the city. Many evacuees did not remove themselves to safe distances away from the swaying buildings pointing to either lax or unprepared safety plans in the capital of China. .
History has shown that China tends to focus on the superficial aspects and benefits of growth throwing less resources towards caution, redundancy, human rights and back up plans. Getting China to approach these soft side considerations, as they race to the Olympics and more business in general might be almost as difficult as getting a twenty something actress to drug rehab
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