The Long March to Capitalism
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Then came SARS




 

    

Change of the board at China Inc: Hu Jintao, 59, succeeds Jiang Zemin. With the promise to keep on building an advanced market economy. 


In International Herald Tribune






Appeared first in Guandong province, a mysterious new respiratory disease spreads through Asia. The planet is worried about SARS.
Not the Chinese Communist Party, which is only afraid of transparency.
«Everything is just fine!» they say.


In International Herald Tribune



    

Epidemiologists of the World unite ! Finally, China is communicating about SARS. The Health minister and the mayor of Beijing are fired, official figures of cases increase dramatically.


In Le Temps

Now China is just like the rest of the World: scared.


In International Herald Tribune




SARS scare : everywhere, travelers and even goods coming from Asia are carefully screened.

In NZZ am Sonntag


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