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While Beijing’s response to epidemic crisis has improved in some ways, it has regressed in others. It is censoring criticism. It is detaining people for spreading what it calls “rumors.” It is suppressing info it deems alarming. Latest from mehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/business/china-coronavirus-censorship.html …
Xu Zhiyuan, a young newspaper columnist, told @eckholm in 2003, “SARS has been our country’s 9/11. It has forced us to pay attention to the real meaning of globalization.” Now he said, “I thought SARS would force China to rethink its governance model. I was too naïve.”
In the past few years, many of the media outlets, advocacy groups, activists and others who held the government accountable in 2003 have been silenced or sidelined. Remember the Southern Metropolis Daily and Dr. Jiang Yanyong?
“The system is successful in that it destroyed the people with integrity, the institutions with credibility & a society capable of narrating its own stories.What’s left is an arrogant power, a bunch of messy information and many fragile, isolated and angry individuals,”Mr.Xu said
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