Tragedy in Myanmar

The Myanmar junta's attempts to influence pick opinion were bot extremely dangerous and unethical. Their inability to look beyond politic suspicions to assist the welfare of the country's people cost many their lives. Their subsequent attempts at creating the farce that they were the ones providing aid damaged diplomatic relations and also community relations. China understood that responding quickly to the earthquake was important be aide the country was under a microscope for the Olympics. To fail to do so would incite a PR disaster that China would not be able to handle. The public opinion of China from other countries would have dropped significantly damaging future international relations. China, being the major power player that it is, has a great deal of self-consciousness when it comes to PR. China's history of the use of propaganda and control of messages within the country elude to the fact that China doesn't like when messages are being fabricated about the country without China's input.