"Sinosphere" blog; The New York Times, 6/4:
High-Speed Rail Aids Disaster Deployments by Chinese Military
Troops at the Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station on Tuesday.Credit Didi Kirsten Tatlow/The New York TimesLoudspeakers screeched no-smoking warnings as scores of men in blue camouflage uniforms massed on platforms No. 6 and 7 at the Hongqiao Railway Station in Shanghai early Tuesday afternoon, 16 hours after the capsizing of the Oriental Star cruise ship with 456 people on board.
It was not clear whether they were sailors headed to Jianli, the site of the sinking on the Yangtze River, but the air of urgency about the man in a white officer’s uniform as he shuffled papers on the ground, and the steady pace of men in blue moving up the escalator, suggested that something was afoot.
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