Ai-yah Daya Bay
By Chip Tsao | published Jun 24, 2010
Radio Free Asia has reported on a leak in one of the fuel tubes at Daya Bay nuclear power plant, situated about 30 miles to the northwest of Hong Kong. In the midst of a public squeal, China Light Power (CLP) admitted the “slight default” but denied last week that there was any radioactive leak. Pressed by reporters to verify the accident, legislator Dr. Raymond Ho, JP, who represents the engineering industry functional constituency, was evasive and hung up the phone, saying that it was dinnertime. Hong Kong people are justified in calling for the scrapping of functional constituencies in the legislature, as Dr. Ho proved that a bowl of rice for him, at any given moment, is apparently more important than the matter of life and death of the more than six million people of Hong Kong he never represents.
It was rumored that the faulty fuel tube had been a made-in-China product, contrary to the agreement that all fuel tubes in the nuclear plant must be made in France in order to ensure immaculate safety. The negligence, if true, is understandable. Nuclear engineers live in a surrealistically claustrophobic steel-clad environment similar to something you’d see in a James Bond movie: white robes busily shuttling around a clandestine end-of-the-world project. They could have lost touch with time, thinking that the Chinese are still patriotically boycotting all French products including LV handbags, as a result of a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Nicolas Sarkozy shortly before the Beijing Olympics of 2008. Could someone kindly update them plus let them know that Barack Obama, not Ronald Reagan, is the current President of the United States, and while they’re at it, that Hong Kong is no longer ruled by Sir David Wilson?
Since stealing state secrets is a serious crime liable to life imprisonment or even execution by firing squad, it’s inadvisable for local and Western reporters to risk their lives getting near a nuclear power plant with their cameras and iPads, even in anti-radioactive suits. A more viable way to track this story down is to deploy paparazzi at Chek Lap Kok airport. If something were going seriously wrong, pro-China business tycoons and billionaires would be informed first, perhaps even before Donald Tsang and his ruling lot who now look utterly politically dispensable. You’ll know those China tubes aren’t working normally if you see the 90-year-old wheelchair-bound mother of one of the local property tycoons being nervously escorted by an entourage of secretaries, assistants and helpers to a private jet or at least a first-class flight to Vancouver with a procession of LV suitcases, fiercely arguing with airline staff about extra payments due to overweight baggage.
As long as the airport is still packed with Chinese tourists and common people, you’ll know that Chinese officials are not lying, Dr. Ho is justified in rushing for his bowl of rice and Daya Bay is still very much mechanically, thank God, and safely controlled by the treacherous French.
Radio Free Asia has reported on a leak in one of the fuel tubes at Daya Bay nuclear power plant, situated about 30 miles to the northwest of Hong Kong. In the midst of a public squeal, China Light Power (CLP) admitted the “slight default” but denied last week that there was any radioactive leak. Pressed by reporters to verify the accident, legislator Dr. Raymond Ho, JP, who represents the engineering industry functional constituency, was evasive and hung up the phone, saying that it was dinnertime. Hong Kong people are justified in calling for the scrapping of functional constituencies in the legislature, as Dr. Ho proved that a bowl of rice for him, at any given moment, is apparently more important than the matter of life and death of the more than six million people of Hong Kong he never represents.
It was rumored that the faulty fuel tube had been a made-in-China product, contrary to the agreement that all fuel tubes in the nuclear plant must be made in France in order to ensure immaculate safety. The negligence, if true, is understandable. Nuclear engineers live in a surrealistically claustrophobic steel-clad environment similar to something you’d see in a James Bond movie: white robes busily shuttling around a clandestine end-of-the-world project. They could have lost touch with time, thinking that the Chinese are still patriotically boycotting all French products including LV handbags, as a result of a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Nicolas Sarkozy shortly before the Beijing Olympics of 2008. Could someone kindly update them plus let them know that Barack Obama, not Ronald Reagan, is the current President of the United States, and while they’re at it, that Hong Kong is no longer ruled by Sir David Wilson?
Since stealing state secrets is a serious crime liable to life imprisonment or even execution by firing squad, it’s inadvisable for local and Western reporters to risk their lives getting near a nuclear power plant with their cameras and iPads, even in anti-radioactive suits. A more viable way to track this story down is to deploy paparazzi at Chek Lap Kok airport. If something were going seriously wrong, pro-China business tycoons and billionaires would be informed first, perhaps even before Donald Tsang and his ruling lot who now look utterly politically dispensable. You’ll know those China tubes aren’t working normally if you see the 90-year-old wheelchair-bound mother of one of the local property tycoons being nervously escorted by an entourage of secretaries, assistants and helpers to a private jet or at least a first-class flight to Vancouver with a procession of LV suitcases, fiercely arguing with airline staff about extra payments due to overweight baggage.
As long as the airport is still packed with Chinese tourists and common people, you’ll know that Chinese officials are not lying, Dr. Ho is justified in rushing for his bowl of rice and Daya Bay is still very much mechanically, thank God, and safely controlled by the treacherous French.
Labels: Politically Incorrect, 陶傑
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