So Much For China’s “Great Healer”

From Yahoo! News: “When he entered office two years ago, Chinese President Hu Jintao quickly raised expectations among people looking for kinder, gentler policies from Beijing. During the SARS (news – web sites) epidemic in early 2003, Hu seemed to give China’s state-owned media more room to report honestly on the country’s health problems. At the same time, Hong Kong’s political activists hoped Hu would prove more liberal than his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, in allowing democracy to develop in the city. And Taiwan’s leaders were looking for signs that Hu would be less hostile than Jiang, who refused to deal with Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian and sent cross-strait relations into a deep freeze.”

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