澳《悉尼晨鋒報》5月12日在一篇揭露中共作假宣傳的報導中說的一針見血:「在北川的地面上,現實並不是那麼輝煌。在地震剛剛發生的最關鍵的頭幾天,在真正需要救援的地方,很明顯的,並未見到解放軍的身影。(On the ground in Beichuan the reality was not so glorious. Soldiers were conspicuously absent from genuine rescue work in the early days that mattered.)」