Meanwhile, most of the 1.5 million survivors of the cyclone are waiting for help in the form of food and medicine. (The generals have approved one US plane with aid on board to land.) The Americans have said that their aid will be on the same terms as after the 2004 tsunami and the 2005 Pakistan earthquake. China has said nothing so far. India has so far dispatched two relief ships belonging to the navy.
These two events and the way in which they have overlapped
