weblog #12 China's Panda Diplomacy With Taiwan

According to China's Panda Diplomacy With Taiwan, Beijing has sent two pandas to Taiwan as a present.

Sending the pandas to Taiwan may seen friendly, but people all know that there are much more motives and reasons why Beijing and our president would agree with this lovely present. Besides, putting the wild animals in cases in the zoo is actually not doing them any good. Main land China is claiming its sovereignty and our president Ma is trying to show friendliness.

Talk about something more practical. How much money did the government spent to greet the two guests? How much money can the zoo earn from them? How much money does it need to feed them? How many people can they attract, after almost everyone has seen them? To be honest, I am not interested in these two animals at all, although I am really an animal lover. I have seen pandas on TV and pictures for a lot of times. In addition, they are not as new as penguins or koala bears. Therefore, I do not think the panda storm will last long.

Come along with this news, the two sides of the strait began direct daily flight on Dec. 15, which took the two pandas. Finally people come and go freer than before, but there may be many problems coming along, and that is another article.

weblog #11 First Face Transplant Performed in the U.S.

According to First Face Transplant Performed in the U.S., Cleveland Clinic surgeons have performed the nation’s first near total face transplant.

In this case, the recipient of the facial transplant surgery was suffering from facial damage. If not for the surgery, no one could imagine what would happen on the woman. Many people may think that it sounds like a plastic surgery, but, in my opinion, the surgery was done not for good looking but for medical purpose. The series of the surgery had been done in China and France. Later on, similar surgeries were done in these two countries.

Nevertheless, there is something that might be troublesome. The rejection of the foreign tissue transplanted from another body. Recipients have to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives, but it may be risky if the effectiveness decreased.

Medical technology is now improving fast conspicuously. As a result, people are able to live longer and longer. After human-to-human organ transplant, now scientists are doing research on animal-to-human organ transplant. Scientists implant human genes into animals’ cells and then gene manipulated animals would be born. These animals’ will carry organs that are genetically similar to humans’ organs. Afterward, scientists are hoping to transplant the organs to humankinds as soon as possible. However, there are some moral issues that are still under discussing.

weblog #1 Tainted Chocolates Found in Hong Kong

According to Tainted Chocolates Found in Hong Kong, there were two chocolate products in Hong Kong were found containing melamine. The other is that Iran has banned imports of all dairy products from China.

I think it is really ridiculous that after the melamine contained dairy products scandal broken out there were still poisonous food for sell. Although Chinese government's fecklessness is notorious worldwide, they still didn't want make efforts to remedy the tragedy. The things that they have done might be suppressing the media and claiming that everything is fine and that there is nothing to worry about. The ingredient suppliers are to blame, too. Didn't they know what they have done would claim lives? They should be punished for disregarding others and themselves lives.

About Iran, I think they have done a great job to ban on imports of dairy products from China. They did what every country should do to protect their people from conscienceless products. There have been four babies killed in China. Other countries that had imported dairy products should already be aware. In Taiwan, people had been so scared that they do not eat or buy things that might have milk powder as ingredients. Companies use milk powder from Australia or New Zealand instead of the ones from China. However, I did not stop eating food that has milk powder because those foods that do contain melamine are already stopped selling. In this way, there should be nothing to be worried about.