An Outbreak of Mistrust in China

On Wednesday night, twin explosions convulsed the northeastern Chinese metropolis of Tianjin, taking more than a hundred lives, injuring some seven hundred people, and leaving still more missing. The most unsettling detail that emerged about the origin of the blasts was perhaps not so much what had sparked them--hazardous chemicals--as the fact that they had taken place at a logistics facility specifically licensed to handle such goods. The warehouse, operated by Ruihai International Logistics, ...