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...classes have been alienated by the maladroit way in which their criticisms have been handled. Bankers, lawyers, senior business figures, religious leaders, academics and teachers fear the legislation will give leadership the legal tools it needs to suppress dissent in Hong Kong as ruthlessly as it does on the mainland. Meanwhile, foreigners voicing concern, including the U.S. government and the European Union, have been portrayed by the Hong Kong government as misinformed dupes of local democrats. At a time when Tung badly needs to reassure the international community on a number of fronts?economic and epidemiological as well as political...
...Beijing. According to Chinese news agency Xinhua, the admirals were fired for "improper command and action" during the accident, the cause of which is still unknown. The dismissals follow the high-profile sackings of top Chinese officials in April over the mishandling of the SARS outbreak on the mainland...
...sudden viral surge has been a setback for Chen's administration. Until last week, politicians had been patting themselves on the back for keeping the disease largely at bay. Officials were only too happy to compare their handling of the outbreak with the situation in mainland China, where authoritarian bureaucrats initially tried to cover up the existence of the disease, only to see the number of infections explode?mistakes that cost the mainland's top health official and the mayor of Beijing their jobs. "Because we had avoided what happened in Hong Kong and China we thought we had avoided...
...Although it's not clear why the virus has suddenly taken hold, there are clues. Until recently, 80% of Taiwan's SARS victims contracted the disease abroad. Many were Taiwanese businessmen returning home from mainland China. But nine out of 10 of the newest casualties have been infected through contacts within the island's well-regarded medical facilities, suggesting that, despite quarantine rules and other anti-SARS measures, health-care workers let down their guard, resulting in the first significant spread of the disease on the island...
...Government officials at first reacted the only way they know how: they blamed Beijing. The mainland considers the island a renegade province and consistently tries to isolate Taiwan from the international community by preventing it from participating in global forums and organizations. China, a United Nations Security Council member, has even kept Taiwan out of the WHO, which is a U.N. agency. Beijing initially refused to allow the WHO to send teams to help Taiwan cope with SARS?a move that arguably kept the island's medical workers dangerously in the dark on the best methods of disease containment. "China...