GenZedong

Idk if someone already mentioned it, but Biden was on a beach and when asked about the tragic fires in Maui, he said “no comment”. Later he released a statement about Maui and his team mentioned that he only said “no comment” because he wanted to release a full statement later. Imagine if Xi said “no comment” about the floods, what the liberal press would say about him, how callous and insensitive he is to the victims. Instead his administration acted on it fast and effectively. I’d say Biden is a joke, but jokes are funny. This is just sad

Nafo, the government attack dogs, are going after anyone talking about the sheer disparity in aid to Maui vs Ukraine.

Its sad, I pray for all the victims. Its all over the news in America.

Puerto Rico hurricane disaster relief vs Cuba, anyone?

It depends on which government.

The US is still a federal system with states acting as sovereign entities with powers and responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is for disaster relief. FEMA is there to provide guidance and resources, but disaster relief is supposed to be deployed at the state level. This is one of reasons why the National Guard has responsibilities to individual states.

The Hawaiian state government handled this situation in the worst possible way, but what is the US federal government supposed to do to response as instantly as people want?

Hawaii is thousands of kilometers from the west coast and it’ll still be several days until the federal relief and military convoys (which were immediately displaced on the first day) from California reach the island, and resources for anti firefighting operations were scarce since the magnitude of the disaster was never expected, and there were little to no personnel equipped to handle the disaster on the island itself since most US firefighters are centered in the Pacific Northwest and Canada currently.

Meanwhile Beijing is quite literally the capital of China, so of course response times will be near instant from relief efforts.