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To: RealMuLan who wrote (174030)	4/9/2003 2:14:35 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Hi Yiwu, RE: "well, all I can say it is unfortunate that you thought Chinese gov. was lying about it. They should have taken things more seriously, and the reason they haven't is because of inexperience, and some disconnection bet. the central gov. and provincial gov. and military hospitals." ------------------------ However, my friend (who recently came back from China on Friday) drew a difficult conclusion. (Your issues are correct, but he believes the issue is more than a simple matter of slowness and inexperience. China was indeed blocking information, he believes.) He believes China was intentionally hiding information because the resort area around HK in China had the WHO website access blocked, just as the WHO people were coming a week ago. (And it was still blocked as of Friday.) Additionally, the regional newspapers were not presenting material in that particular provincial area (even though, at exactly the same time, the USA/CN/European/SAsia were basically screaming out loud about China on the issue in their news.) Intentional omissions of relevant information could be interpreted as a type of lying. Obviously, the more correct, less offensive and diplomatic phrase is a "significant lack of transparency." But blocking the WHO website in a resort area? I think it's better to offend China with the truth, than to "offend" more innocent victims who die of SARS. The truth has a way of getting issues to the proper fix faster - and it's more constructive. Btw, China should hire a US PR firm. They've really got a foreign PR disaster on their hands. 101 PR says, "when you've goofed or if everyone perceives this to be the case, don't deny the problem, acknowledge it. Embrace the problem as if it's yours and be a hero by fixing it." People will trust those that embrace a problem over those that deny its significance. China might consider that generating trust can be more important than (in some cases) even the actual problem. In the USA culture, people are heroes for fixing problems (even those they create themselves). China has an opportunity to take the lead and be a hero, which is better in the LT view. Short-term pain for long-term gain. Regards, Amy J