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...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...
Perhaps I’m reading too much into Yao’s role—after all, U.S.-Sino relations are for President Bush and Hu Jintao to worry about. But, as last Monday’s “First Annual Asian-American Night” at the FleetCenter proved, the hopes of many millions rests on the wide shoulders of the man they call The Great Wall...
...China's National People's Congress, when it opens March 5 to rubber-stamp Wen's promotion to Premier, will complete a generational changing of the guard. The enigmatic Hu Jintao, already named last year to lead the Communist Party, is set to succeed Jiang Zemin as President. Meanwhile Wen, 60, will replace Zhu Rongji. He has some size-14 hobnailed boots to fill. The brilliant but overbearing Zhu, 74, brought China into the World Trade Organization and hacked away for a decade at the stultifying vestiges of the command economy. For the world's most prominent businessmen, including Microsoft...
According to Goldstein, Chinese leaders cannot afford to be soft on Taiwan, “particularly if you’re a new successor who is somewhat young,” a reference to Hu Jintao, the new head of the Communist Party...