China-Russia Border Poison

China-Russia Border Poison
http://the-diplomat.com/2010/08/03/china-russia-border-poison/

An accident involving barrels of toxic chemicals is only likely to exacerbate long-standing Russian concerns over China.

By Richard Weitz

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When 7000 barrels of toxic chemicals from two damaged chemical plant warehouses in Jilin Province were swept into the Wende River, a tributary of the major Songhua River, emergency services in China leapt into action over concerns that the drinking water of millions of Chinese could be contaminated.
The accident happened during massive flooding in the north-east of the country that has claimed dozens of lives so far. But it’s not just Chinese officials who will have been keeping an eye on the on the clean-up efforts—the Songhua is also a tributary of Russia’s Amur River, which provides drinking water to numerous cities in the Russian Far East.

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