Posted AT 10:16 PM EDT on 16/05/08
Earlier calamities in China shrouded in secrecy
What a difference a few decades makes. The earthquake in Sichuan and its massive loss of life has garnered blanket media coverage, both by Chinese and foreign reporters. China even invited foreign disaster-relief experts to help out.
Not so in 1976.
On July 28 of that year, a massive earthquake obliterated Tangshan, China, killing at least 240,000 in the area about 300 kilometres southeast of Beijing and seriously injuring hundreds of thousands of others. The U.S.
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