Wednesday, May 21, 2003
TRANSPARENT HERO
China Celebrates a "Whistleblower"
China Daily has a story this morning celebrating the acts of Jiang Yanyong, 72, a retired physician at the People's Liberation Army General Hospital (Hospital No 301 in Beijing), who is credited as a "whistleblower" who contacted press outlets (including Western media) back in early April to report that SARS was worse in Beijing than was being officially reported. Stories like this represent a significant change in the public life of the PRC, bearing out my earlier post to the effect that this kind of thing could be a silver lining for the cloud of SARS.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 7:47 AM
