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Meanwhile, medical supplies donated to the Red Cross Society sit unused in warehouses.Officials in Xiantao, a city 70 miles from Wuhan and one of the world’s biggest manufacturing centers for protective supplies, ordered factories there to cease operations.
Big Chinese corporations and wealthy individuals have been donating, many generously. But they also try to keep low profiles for fear of offending a government that is eager to take credit for any success and quick to suspect outside groups of challenging it.
“The traditional management mechanism of ‘big gov't’ is no longer efficient, and is even failing,” a management consultant wrote. “The gov't is very busy but not effective. The social forces aren’t being utilized because they can only stand on the sideline, watching anxiously.”
The Party has never liked or trusted civil society. It is suspicious of any org that could potentially pose challenge to its rule. It has cracked down on NGOs like rights groups,charities,churches...The party wants nothing to stand betwn its gov't and China’s 1.4 billion people.
Ordinary Chinese people have set up social media groups to help patients find hospital beds, get volunteers to drive them to hospitals and scavenge the world for protective gear. In coordination with the government, they could do much more.
If the Red Cross Society is a bottleneck in distributing medical supplies,the local¢ral gov'ts can become obstacles in private efforts to make,purchase and distribute these supplies. The frustration and exasperation of ordinary Chinese who try to help:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/business/china-coronavirus-charity-supplies.html …
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