Before Dr. Jason Huang became a major in the U.S. Army, he faced tanks at Tiananmen Square, served three years of house arrest, signed daily confessions to the Chinese police, was blacklisted by the government, had himself declared mentally ill, used a fake passport to enter the United States and became a political refugee, an American student, an American citizen and eventually a neurosurgeon at Strong Memorial Hospital.

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is expected to provide satellite images to China as soon as today to assist in damage assessments in earthquake-stricken Sichuan province, a senior defense official said today.

The People’s Republic of China specifically requested imagery of dams, reservoirs, roads and bridges, said Bryan Whitman, deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. Weather permitting and if cloud cover doesn’t hamper the effort, the first images are expected to be delivered today, he said.

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A Canadian college professor, herding ten students, reports to his local news media on how things are going at the heart of quake.

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More reporting about the earthquake in China. NPR has a news crew on-scene, because they were doing a feature piece on the region.

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On-going reporting from China concerning the great earthquake today

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Here are some more blogs writing about today’s earthquake in SW China.

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Early blog posts from China and Asia about the earthquake today.

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7.8 earthquake strikes sw China. Hundreds feared killed.

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The Department of Defense has issued its annual report to Congress on the military activities of our competition, the Communist Chinese. PDF file

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The recent weather problems, and crop failures, have begun to affect the Chinese economy.
BBC
Chinese inflation hit an 11-year high in January after rising price pressures were exacerbated by fierce snow storms, official figures show.
Soaring food prices were largely blamed for pushing consumer inflation up to 7.1% last month, from 6.5% in December.
Inflation in China [...]

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Chiang Kai-shek is spinning in his grave. The political party he led into exile on Taiwan has won the parliamentary elections. No, that’s not why he’s spinning. The KMT, his party, favors closer relations with the mainland, and is willing to discuss unification. Round and round he goes.
Free China has been growing closer to the [...]

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