In China, Video of Deadly Accident Reignites Debate Over Lack of Trust -<br />By IAN JOHNSONJUNE 9, 2017<br />BEIJING — An agonizing traffic accident caught on surveillance cameras has reignited a debate in China about a lack of values and trust in society.<br />“In the aftermath of the Nanjing case, many Chinese worry about the victims turning around to blame the helpers,<br />and thus feel unable to offer direct help,” Dali L. Yang, a political scientist at the University of Chicago who has written about the lack of social trust in China, said in an interview.<br />The Weibo user Jillna Chen wrote:<br />“If someone went to halt the traffic and called the police — didn’t even have to help her get up — she wouldn’t have died.<br />“If this case was only about the first driver running away after hitting the victim, it would just be a normal traffic accident,” said Zhang Xuebing, a lawyer<br />and a former law professor at the East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai.<br />On a report on the video by China News, a user called Zhuwu left this comment:<br />“It is not the onlookers but society that is coldblooded.”<br />Some say the problem is a legal one.
