The widely-influential milk scandal was resulted from the industrial chemical melamine added to not only milk but yogurt and infant formula. It has led to kidney stones crystallized in body that inflicted hundreds of babies, and killed 3.

At the Forum, Wen kept on saying, as China daily described,

Wen said he was very moved when he saw in television European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson drinking a cup of Chinese milk on Friday to show his trust in China-made products. “It's because he not only sees the present, but the future as well,” Wen said.

This Mandelson, 9 days later, was rushed to hospital in England due to unbearable pain, and after inspection, the trouble-maker is revealed—–kidney stone.

Mandelson might have gone through his most dramatic days in the period of time. In the reshuffle on Friday, Mandelson made a surprise return to the Britain cabinet under Brown's appointment. And on his first day in the office, kidney stones sent him to doctors. Would he relate his misfortune with the milk drunk a few days ago?

Whatever, Chinese blogger have already picked up their pens for responses.

Blogger “prostate inflamed” published on bullg.cn an entry, named “the Chinese milk stunned the world again“. Nothing more did he do than juxtaposing the two news stories, “Wen was impressed by Mandelson's drinking of China milk”, and “on his office move-in day, Mandelson was sent to hospital due to kidney stones “.

Fishabc0 could only sigh in his comment,

立竿见影

And Nasheishei summarized in one word:

黑色幽默

Netizen 无上荣光 (Ultimate glory) exclaimed:

我喜欢英国幽默。这绝对是一场精彩的行为艺术表演！这是对中国政府官商勾结坑害百姓的机智嘲讽。非常精彩！

Another well-known blogger 宋石男, in a further step, wrote to analyze Mandelson's kidney stones,

在我看来，事件真相有两个可能：

1、曼德尔森早就知道自己有肾结石，故意当众喝中国牛奶，是在落井下石。

2、曼德尔森不知道自己有肾结石，勇敢地当众喝中国牛奶，是好心办了坏事。

Whichever is the truth (I personally incline to the latter), it would be as 老碗 says,

中国奶的确没让世界人民失望

But overall, it's never good to be a group of people, who can only make fun of ourselves, while find no way out, no way to change, even no no way to keep ourselves and baies from poison.

驴夫 says,

最近心情很忧伤 看到这个故事于是忧伤有了愉悦 成了愉悦的忧伤

This is our bitter joy melted in milk

(Pictures from Wikipedia, use under permission license)

Indonesia is Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. But it is also facing tremendous economic challenges. Poverty is rising, unemployment is high, and unrest is mounting.

What are the views of Indonesian bloggers and residents on the Wall Street crash?

First, a background on the Indonesian economy. Indonesia Project writes:

“Indonesia’s inflation rate is now well over twice as high as the central bank’s target of about five per cent. There are two convenient scapegoats: big increases in both oil and rice prices. But the real explanation, as always, is unduly loose monetary policy.”

The Polar Bear Diaries is not optimistic about the status of Indonesia’s economy:

“Indonesia survives by exporting produce from its large workforce. Local market purchasing power is limited. A large percentage of the population live from hand to mouth, with little or no savings. But those exports are falling compared to imports, and the general cost of living is rising dramatically. Exports will fall a lot further as consumer confidence in the West is eroded.”

The Wall Street crash had an immediate impact on Indonesia’s economy. Everything Indonesia reports:

“Indonesia's composite index fell around 10% in a single day Monday, the kind of drop that would have American market commentators running for their bottles of Maalox…Contracting economies means less energy consumption which means Indonesian commodity concerns, like coal companies, get hammered.”

Indonesian banks suffered too which pushed some local investors to seek government assistance. Exegesis disapproves this kind of behavior:

“Have you read newspapers lately? I'm talking about those people trying to ask compensation from the government for their investment loss due to the crippling effect from the Wall Street's recent fiasco. They are amazing. When they decided to put their money in private investment bank, they did it out of respectable greed and of course without consulting any government whatsoever (in fact it's really like: hey this is my money, you government stay away!). Now the bank they put their money with is facing serious problem and is likely to share the pain with their individual ‘investors'. And they're asking the government to pay for their loss? I don't get it. I really don't.”

Meanwhile, Id economy shares the government's optimism:

“I fully agree with government about the current condition, we're still good to go but we should anticipate for contagion effect, in this case by fighting liquidity squish both for domestic currency (by limiting credit expansion) and foreign currency (by promoting export).”

The public is advised not to panic:

“If you ask me what next, to be honest I do not know. Since that's all depends on the market now. Depends on the result of maintaining current account we will see up and down in rupiah's exchange rate that's for sure. And depends on the credit growth reform we will see (in my opinion) slowdown in economic growth. But how the swing up and down is completely up to the market to decide. Yes, please play safe these days, there are panic people out there, and it is a bliss and bless for us not to be panic (now).”

treespotter hopes the situation in the US will improve:

“I am not an American but I have financial interests to see the market go back to where it was (if possible, circa 2005). Similar to America, I’m up to my neck in debt and survive only on steeply declining asset and a line of credit. I don’t get to vote for American president and I don’t have a representative to call. I get to watch the whole thing from television and the internet, and I truly wonder if anyone there really knows what they’re doing. I sincerely hope so.”

Cafe Salemba supports the bailout program of the US government:

“You may agree or disagree with the plan, but I think it is imperative to at least understand that this is about how to deal with credit market, the heart of the economy that keeps its lifeblood flowing, that doesn't work. One lesson from the 1930 Great Depression and 1998 Asian Crisis is that the failure to do so will bring a prolonged credit crunch and output contraction. It could become indeed very nasty.”

The threat of economic recession is affecting personal perspectives. Java Jive writes:

“It’s October, so it must be that time of year when I freak out about the future, to stay in Indonesia or not, to seek another career option, or simply maintain what I’ve been doing for so long now. It doesn’t help that the American economy has been thrown in the canal, nor that the Indonesian economy is now heading towards possible turmoil as well.”

Indonesia Matters discusses the prospect of making the sharia finance as alternative to the US economic and banking model. A lively discussion in the comments section ensues:

Andy notes how the West managed to survive economic recessions in the past:

“Whatever happens in the west now I don’t believe will be as bad as 1987 and certainly not as bad as 1929. And from both cases the west returned stronger than ever before. Compare that to now where Indonesia still hasn’t recovered from 1998 even though ten years have passed.”

Marisa points out the need to reform the US financial sector:

“How does USA’s financial crisis affect Indonesia, anyhow? According to Faisal Basri on last night’s news, it has not greatly affected Indonesia, because Indonesia hasn’t reached that certain economic depth with the US that would make it as affected as, for instance, Australia. Oh wow, apparently Indonesia isn’t so westernized after all, we just look westernized.

“While our Asian third world brains are beginning to question the worthiness of our loyalty to the Great White Hope — vice versa, America must endure whatever it is they need to endure…I do absolutely agree that American financial sector must reform itself, especially after Bush administration and the way its doing things.”

Unspun questions the imprecise reporting of Indonesian newspapers about the financial crisis. Via Twitter, vmahmud writes: “…is now seeking tweets from the U.S. Stock Exchange. Everyone have their parachutes ready?”

Right in a recent interview by CNN, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao appealed for giving States a hand:

So this time we should join hands and meet the crisis together. If the financial and economic system in the United States go wrong, then the impact will be felt, not only in this country but also in China, in Asia and in the world at large.

Wen talked so with a certain reason, as blogger 百草止水 posted on discussion board Tianya.cn in a entry named “should China rescue U.S?” ; 中国到底该不该拯救美国;？

在这个世界上，美国是唯一牵一发而动全身的国家，不仅因为它是独一无二的超级大国，还因为它是全球最大的消费市场。你可以不从美国进口商品，但无法不向美国出口，如果这个消费市场停摆了，全球经济将无一幸免地跟着遭殃。

In this world, U.S i s the only state that may influence the entire world, not just that it’s the only super power, but that it owns th e largest consumption market all over the world. You can stop importing goods from U.S, but c an by no means ceas e exportin g to it. If such a market stagnates, the global economy has no way to avoid a disaster.

The plane named “subprime mortgage crisis” is running into “Dollar status” and “foreign debt”, illustrated by unknown netizen.

Besides the States’ significant influence over global market, more importantly, China is the largest holder of U.S. Treasury bills, and also maintained a strong trade tie with US where is the country’s major destination of export(21% of total). With its GDP’s reliance on export, the determination of China to help rescue U.S from another disastrous depression could be reasonable.

As Wen Jiabao said in the interview,

The U.S. finance is closely connected with the Chinese finance. If anything goes wrong in the U.S. financial sector, we are anxious about the safety and security of Chinese capital.

But does the situation allow China to rescue U.S?

Above all, the prospect of U.S economy is in deep uncertainty. No one could imagine how much the crisis that has destructed Bear Stern and Lehman Brothers is going to wreck anymore.

百草止水 pointed out that the crisis is rooted in the States’ inherent economic system, that

美国经济对金融产业的依赖很强：第一，美国以两亿多人口占据世界第一消费市场，不是因为美国世界最富，而是美国流行“寅吃卯粮”的消费文化，也就是说美国人习惯于拿明天的钱用于今天的享受。

Thus, the consequence could be

第一，美国人更加不敢将钱存入银行
第二，金融企业的不 景气会使其发行的债券无人问津，而且已发行的债券也可能成为白纸一张，华尔街的融资能力剧烈受挫，美国经济的前景更加堪虑。第三，美国银行的存款锐减，金 融企业的债券不再受欢迎，也就越来越无钱用于放贷和投资，缺乏了银行支持的消费市场便进一步萎缩，不仅美国经济陷入衰退，全球经济也会一片混乱。
第五，美国经济出现全面危机，美元更加疯狂地贬值，美元的世界货币地位彻底终结……
第六，美元的剧烈贬值将会使美国债券尤其是国债的持有人高度受损，作为美国国债的第一第二持有者的日本和中国将首当其冲。
第七，为转嫁危机，包括美国在内的世界各主要国家就会穷兵黩武，一场新的世界大战在所难免，核武器可能首次大规模使用，人类可能遭到灭绝。这不是百草止水危言耸听，1931年的欧洲金融危机就是这样子的，那场危 机成了第二次世界大战的导火索。

At the end of his article, the blogger posted a critical question

要知道，中国手里的外汇储备世界第一，在美国金融危机当中，中国有能力发挥积极作用。问题是美国一直在积极遏制和围堵中国，甚至一再阻扰中国的统一进程，对这样的国家我们需要以德报怨吗？

In 2 pages of comments followed, firespace1 scorned

支持楼主拿工资去救美国

7758521wan said:

你真是个牛人啊，据然想起来承救美国，他妈的你才吃饱饭几天啊，现在就出来救人，真是有种，你是真的有钱就到大街上去救几个同胞不是更好吗……我为你感到悲唉啊．

Accordingly, maybe people should ask “do we have the power to save America”.

零时三刻1970 said:

中国也没那能力去救美国
不落井下石抛国债已经是最大程度的支持了

But 推拖拉机的浣熊 thought the other way,

说楼主脑残的脑瘫患者.看不懂就闭嘴.别再那乱扣帽子.如果美国危机持续下去.最多十个月,国内经济必然失控.从金融开始到房地产后工业.国人到时不知多少人要自杀.

EileenZ　rebuked:

照楼主的说法，美国永远都不能倒下，全世界都应该用本国的力量去支持美国的强大，这样他才能不停的用别人的钱去消费，给其他国家带来订单？
这样的逻辑，真的很糟糕，就像你不停的给钱别人来买你的东西一样，而这个人最终不会付清它的债务，因为他自己没有钱，所有的钱都是借来得。

讨厌猫的男人 seconds, giving an analogy

中国好比就是给美国打工,然在老板说我没钱了,公司要倒了.打工的说不能倒啊,倒了我没饭吃了,老板说那就你借点钱给我继续开公司,你也可以继续为我打工.楼猪这叫什么逻辑

That might be why insins said:

要救，但要乘机提条件 为什么要救？美国是中国的最大出口市场，他衰退，中国也要损失惨重。
提条件虽然不厚道，但跟美国人提不要心怀不安，他们对我们一直如此的，我们可以在台湾问题，西藏等问题提条件，多好的筹码啊

More than the unwillingness to give a hand, there are voices criticizing U.S is trying to transfer his financial burden to all the rest of the world, nothing different with a rogue state's action.

In another discussion board, IronBlood, 大大跑 said

美国金融破产与９７年国企业改革之初有的企业采用破产方法甩债另立公司都是为了破壳逃债，不过本质不同的是：美国是破外国债权，美国实际资产一点也没少……对这样不讲信誉赖掉他国债务的国家，为什么还要进行投资救市

On the one hand, China fears the financial crisis would not only involve the States itself, but destroy the global market and economic order as well; while on the other hand, it is thrilled by the significant chance, as the States might have during the World War 2, that along with the shift on power map, China would escalate to a status of super power.

大大跑's comment is exactly the expression of this ambition:

中国老百姓不同意政府参与美国救市，一是美国金融破产信誉让中国损失严重；二是国际上不应以美元做为单一世界货币绑架世界经济；三是世界上需要经济重新洗 牌规避类似美国大举破产逃债经济事故。有的网友说“美国的经济危机就是世界经济权益的一次再分配，中国务必做好重建新秩序的各项准备”