Ping!
Hmm.
Terrorism has reached China.
Another food quality inspector being “executed”?
I bet its housecleaning before the Olympics.
If there's one thing I'm pretty certain of, the Chinese won't allow "PC" to dictate their efforts on finding and naming the culprit.
Prayers for the innocent.
“The license plate started “Lu0”, i.e. it is a government car.”
hmmm....So which gov’t officials are unaccounted for?
And we will be seeing this in our major free press when? At least their press has an excuse.
Notice two cars involved are double parked.
The car next to the curb does not appear to be the car with the bomb in it - the outside car has roof, trunk, and right side damage consistent with an internal explosion and it’s fire has died down. The curbside car shows no obvious explosion damage and is fully engulfed in flames.
Most likely scenario is that the bomb was in the street side car. The car next to the curb was parked, the street side car pulled up parallel to it, and the explosive device was detonated. It is not impossible (but unlikely) that the driver of the bomb car escaped.
A bit of a view at upper level Provincial PRC politics, eh? Maybe somebody asked to take a big fall resented doing a Zheng Xiaoyu?
Speculatively I find the People’s Liberation Army involvement in the Chinese “food and drug” scandal very interesting.
One Big Media story amongst many:
“The Chinese army is to take steps to ensure the safety of its food supply, due to fears unsafe products could harm combat capacity, state media reports.
According to a circular, food suppliers will have to pass hygiene and safety checks, and units will be ordered to monitor the supply chain.”
The PLA has been the power center of gravity in China since 1948 (understatement) and might be finding regional and local politicians and their cronies a bit uppity these days, hmm?
The Shanghai “political center of gravity” is very strong and getting stronger by the minute and regional factions are tempted to play both sides of the street.
In the end killing trumps money.