BEIJING: A lack of answers about vast explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin Thursday reinforced questions about standards in the country, where campaigners say lives are sacrificed on a lack of respect for safety and poor implementation.

At least 50 people died and more than 700 were injured in the nighttime blasts that devastated one of China’s showpiece industrial landscapes, incinerating imported cars and scattering shipping containers in a key port in the world’s biggest trader in goods.

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