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...problem isn't just the virus, which has traumatized at least two other cities: Beijing and Hong Kong. What's especially nerve-racking is the cover-up at the source, in the corridors of power in China. Hu Jintao, who became leader of China's Communist Party half a year ago, now has to manage the country's biggest internal political crisis since the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square. After Beijing's initial efforts to hide the severity of crisis, Hu will have to step nimbly to protect the party's authority--and his career...
News of a widespread Shanghai cover-up would further devastate the credibility of the national government and perhaps threaten the political future of China's new President, Hu Jintao. Until its attempts to come clean last week on the situation in the capital, the Hu government's approach to dealing with SARS had been both craven and ineffectual. After the disease surfaced in China's southern Guangdong province in November, party leaders quashed media reports about its existence, fearing the public would stay home during the Chinese New Year holiday rather than spend money that could spur the economy...
...Containing the epidemic is just one of the government's challenges. Another is modulating public perception of how well its leaders are handling the fight against SARS. The stage is set for a massive political realignment, with the fate of China's new leaders Party chief and President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao in the hot seat. "This battle is theirs to win or lose," says an editor of an influential Party newspaper in Beijing. "If they can get SARS under control, they'll be untouchable...
...says there may be 200 cases in Beijing compared with the official government number of 40), investigators were not allowed access to medical records, and whistle-blowers were offering embarrassing accounts of official cover-ups to the foreign press. China's new leadership, led by President Hu Jintao, suddenly found itself entangled in an international credibility crisis. Finally, months after the outbreak began, the Politburo Standing Committee, the country's top ruling body, ordered an end to the obfuscation: late last week, the committee demanded "accurate, timely and honest reporting of the SARS situation" from cadres throughout the country. With...
...travel-advisory list, alongside Guangdong province and Hong Kong. The WHO then estimated the capital's SARS patients at 100 to 200?five times more than the government acknowledged?based on hospital visits and other data. On Friday, state media reported that China's new President, Hu Jintao, had met the previous day with the Politburo's Standing Committee and that those present were "explicitly warned against the covering up of SARS cases...