Notice, too, how today the People’s Daily and China Daily both run a story announcing the sixth confirmed case of Bird Flu. And this gets picked up by the Washington Post. They are changing the story, diverting out gaze elsewhere…
And, then, they respond indirectly with a People’s Daily story about Hu Jintao going to Qinghai and saying: “We must work energetically to solve the problems that the people concern most and are related to their fundamental interests.” Of course, if he cared about “the problems that the people concern most” he would be going to Dongzhou.