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Since the Communist Party first came to power in China, withholding information from the
Chinese public and the world has been a long-standing practice. Nationwide cover-ups of
potentially embarassing incidents have always been carried out under the mantra of
"preserving social stability". The most recent one is the systematic torture and
murder of Falun Gong practitioners. The outbreak of the SARS epidemic, would have gone unnoticed
if not for its widespread international impact.
Updated Reports
- BBC: Sars-like viruses found in China
- [9/8/2003]
AFP: UN body warns SARS could reappear,
finds no evidence of animal origin - [9/2/2003]
Yahoo News: One third of all Chinese fear
return of SARS as health system remains weak - [8/21/2003]
The Guardian: The vanished virus -- Sars
could still be lurking to return - [8/21/2003]
Chinese Officials Cover Up the True
Situation of the SARS Epidemic to Save Their Jobs - [7/7/2003]
Officials in Mainland China Abuse the
Special Funds Intended for Fighting Against SARS and Preventing the
Epidemic - [7/4/2003]
Chinese News Agency Discloses that China
Uses its Own Definitions to Classify and Report SARS Diagnoses (Photo) - [6/12/2003]
Financial Times: Chinese Press Rebuts SARS
Claims - [6/11/2003]
SARS Epidemic Remains Serious in China;
Authorities Still Covering Up the Truth (Photo) - [6/10/2003]
SCMP: Sars cover-up emboldens mainland
journalists to seek out the truth - [6/9/2003]
Health Ministry's Denial of SARS Cover-Up
Sparks Torrent of Criticism from Internet Users in China - [6/9/2003]
SARS Patients and their Family Members
Consider Class Action Suit Against Chinese Government - [6/7/2003]
Reuters: WHO cautious about China's SARS
reports - [6/7/2003]
Press Release FDI Ireland: SARS is Just the
Tip of the Iceberg in Terms of What Jiang Zemin is Hiding - Irish Student
Among Thousands Still Detained without Cause - [6/7/2003]
"610 Office" Personnel Persecute
Dafa Practitioners Using the Excuse of SARS Prevention - [6/7/2003]
BBC: WHO questions Chinese Sars drop, No
let-up in protection against Sars in Beijing - [6/5/2003]
Asia Times: Deception, by the numbers - [6/5/2003]
Japan Economic Newswire: FOCUS: SARS
Openness 'With Chinese Characteristics' - [6/4/2003]
Asia Times: New SARS Disaster Looms In
Beijing - [6/4/2003]
AFP: China SARS Action Slammed: Report - [6/4/2003]
Taipei Times Commentary Cites Lack of
Respect for Human Life in SARS Coverup - [5/31/2003]
AFP: Top Chinese health official denies
government covered up SARS epidemic - [5/31/2003]
FDI: American Held in Chinese Prison for
"Preparing" to Unmask China's Four-Year Lie -- SARS is Just the
Tip of the Iceberg in Terms of What Jiang Zemin is Hiding - [5/29/2003]
International Herald Tribune: SARS exposes
China's fragility - [5/28/2003]
Boston Globe: Exploring China's silence on
SARS -- New details surface on initial cover-up - [5/27/2003]
Baltimore Sun: China recovers from SARS via
media's patriotic song - [5/24/2003]
Globe and Mail: China cool toward MD who
told SARS truth - [5/24/2003]
Online Journalism Review: Chinese Learn True
Scope of SARS From the Internet -- For months, the government-controlled
media downplayed the extent of the epidemic and the number of fatalities - [5/24/2003]
FDI: Investigation Uncovers More Lies in
Chinese Regime's Story of Tragic Self-Immolation Incident -- "Sadly,
the SARS cover-up is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what this
regime is hiding." - [5/24/2003]
AFP
(Agence France-Presse): WHO puzzled over how certain Chinese SARS patients
became sick - [5/24/2003]
Asia Times: WHO, do you believe? - [5/23/2003]
Reuters: Chinese doctor gagged for
revealing SARS cover-up - [5/23/2003]
Straits Times: Did China learn the right
lesson? - [5/22/2003]
Time: A Case Study -- Shanghai has
promised the WHO it will revise its diagnostic criteria for SARS. At
issue: the real caseload - [5/22/2003]
Straits Times: Beijing 'under-reporting
cases' - [5/18/2003]
AFP: Fears Mount Over SARS Misdiagnosis in
China as Taiwan Cuts Links to Mainland - [5/18/2003]
CNN: China censors CNN SARS report - [5/16/2003]
China Refuses to Disclose the Data about
Military Personnel Infected with SARS (Photo) - [5/16/2003]
New York Times: Spread of SARS Acts as a
Rude Awakening for China - [5/15/2003]
Financial Times: HK chief accused of
mishandling SARS outbreak - [5/15/2003]
NewsMax.com: World Health Organization
Says China's SARS Cover-up Continues - [5/15/2003]
SCMP (South China Morning Post (Hong
Kong)): Scholar blames state secrets law for cover-up on the mainland - [5/15/2003]
Post and Courier(NC): China shuns doctor
who told SARS truth, WHO says - [5/15/2003]
CNN: China bars SARS txt rumors - [5/14/2003]
Taipei Times: Doomed by a lack of
accountability - [5/14/2003]
WorldNetDaily: Mystery Superflu: China
Blames U.S. for SARS - Floats Theory Virus Byproduct Of Bioweapon
Research - [5/13/2003]
Taiwan Economic News: SARS Changes Taiwan
Firms' Biz Concept Toward Mainland - [5/13/2003]
AP: WHO: Beijing's SARS Data Seriously
Flawed - [5/11/2003]
The Asian Wall Street Journal: China's
Turning Point - [5/10/2003]
AFP: WHO Steps Up SARS Fight In China,
More Provinces Declared No-Go Zones - [5/9/2003]
Star Tribune: Human rights and SARS - [5/8/2003]
SARS Strikes China's Economy and Threatens
the World - [5/8/2003]
Summary of News Reports on SARS Epidemic:
The Spread of SARS in China Is Still Out of Control - [5/8/2003]
Knight Ridder Washington Bureau: World at
risk if China doesn't curb SARS, official warns - [5/8/2003]
Economic Times: Disruption In China as
SARS Expands - [5/8/2003]
AFP (Agence France-Presse): WHO uncertain
on SARS - [5/7/2003]
Taipei Times: Weaknesses of China seen
during epidemic - [5/6/2003]
World Socialist: SARS epidemic triggers
political crisis in China (Excerpt) - [5/6/2003]
News & Record (Greensboro, NC): SARS:
The High Cost Of Denial - [5/6/2003]
Los Angeles Times: CHINA; SARS Lays Bare a
Contradiction (Excerpt) - [5/6/2003]
Wall Street Journal: Sickness in the System -- The SARS Epidemic - [5/3/2003]
Austin American Statesman (Texas, USA): Economic fallout of SARS
hits billions of dollars - [5/2/2003]
CNN: SARS death rate rising - [5/2/2003]
Gopusa (Texas, USA): SARS Slams the Tiger - [5/2/2003]
International Press Institute Blames China's Media Control for
Rampant Spread of SARS - [5/1/2003]
Times Union: China must become more forthcoming - [5/1/2003]
USA Today: SARS nations learn a lesson - [5/1/2003]
Forbes: TRADE-CHINA-SARS - [5/1/2003]
Wilmington Morning Star(North Carolina): A symptom of oppression
- [5/1/2003]
MENAFN (Middle East North Africa Financial Review): China's
handling of SARS affecting U.S. businesses - [5/1/2003]
The Orange County Register (California): China will pay for SARS
debacle - [4/30/2003]
AFP (Agence France-Presse): Two Chinese editors sacked over
confidential SARS document - [4/30/2003]
Washington Post: A Mistrust of Government Undercuts China's
Effort - [4/30/2003]
Knight Ridder/Tribune: China again criticized over lack of
cooperation on SARS - [4/30/2003]
Time: Tale of Two Countries - [4/29/2003]
Le Figaro (France): Press Comment on the Alarming Spread of
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Excerpt) - [4/29/2003]
The Straits Times: China is untrustworthy - [4/29/2003]
Sydney Morning Herald Letter to Editor: SARS Cover-Up Similar to
Cover-Up of the Persecution of Falun Gong - [4/29/2003]
International Herald Tribune: SARS tests Communist rule in China - [4/29/2003]
SCMP: Security laws should take back seat to Sars crisis, say
lawyers - [4/29/2003]
International Press Institute Asserts that China's Control of
the Media Caused the Spread of SARS - [4/29/2003]
Time: Shanghai SARS Cases a State Secret - [4/28/2003]
Reuters: Could SARS Be Reform-fostering "China's
Chernobyl"? - [4/28/2003]
Concealing the Extent of the
SARS Outbreak Angers the Public -- Only Seven Provinces Have No Cases So Far (Photo) - [4/28/2003]
As the SARS Epidemic Spreads, Beijing Experiences a Mass Exodus
(Photos) - [4/28/2003]
Time Magazine: Hiding The Patients (Photo) - [4/27/2003]
CNN: Number of new SARS cases in China soars (Excerpt) - [4/26/2003]
Ottawa Citizen: Chinese secrecy threatens world health (Photo) - [4/26/2003]
Toronto Star (Ontario, Canada): The China boomerang - [4/26/2003]
AFP: SARS Weighs in Hard on China's Inadequate Health Care
System - [4/25/2003]
USA Today: World health experts treat SARS as if it's the Big
One (Photos) - [4/25/2003]
Taiwan Business and Commerce Times: Mainland China Economy in
Shock Under the Effect of SARS - [4/24/2003]
BusinessWeek: China's Deadliest Plague: Authoritarianism - [4/23/2003]
The Baltimore Sun: Deal with devil proves deadly - [4/23/2003]
Apple Daily: Dismissing a Couple of Officials From Their Posts
Cannot Possibly Change the Chinese Government's Vice of Lying - [4/23/2003]
Complicated Source of SARS; Epidemic Launches Unprecedented
Attack in Asia - [4/22/2003]
AFP: Chinese SARS measures too late to prevent nationwide
crisis: analysts - [4/22/2003]
With SARS Prevailing, Tourism in Mainland China on the Verge of
Collapse - [4/22/2003]
Scholar in China: Epidemic in China Serious; Society Having
Difficultly Accepting the Facts - [4/22/2003]
The Chinese Ruling Party Covers Up the Truth About SARS; Health
Minister and Beijing Mayor Become Scapegoats - [4/22/2003]
China Declares "Atypical Pneumonia" a Level One
Communicable Disease; Many Health Workers in Beijing Have Been Infected, and Many Schools Have
Suspended Classes - [4/22/2003]
Washington Post: SARS Coverup Spurs A Shake-Up in Beijing - [4/22/2003]
From the True Situation of the Epidemic to Fabricated Lies - [4/21/2003]
Beijing: Several Medical Personnel Reveal That the Authorities
Deceived World Health Organization Inspectors (Photos) - [4/21/2003]
SARS Cases Found in Thirteen Post-Secondary Institutions in
Beijing - [4/21/2003]
Central News Agency
(Taiwan): SARS Strikes Beijing, Citizens Are In a Panic - [4/19/2003]
AP:Worries Arise Over SARS Increase in China - [4/19/2003]
Asia News Broadcasting Station: SARS Epidemic Causing Worldwide
Fear - [4/19/2003]
Time Asia: Unmasking A Crisis - [4/18/2003]
AFP: China ignores calls for greater transparency over SARS - [4/18/2003]
CCTV Produces Special Programs to Deceive the Public and Blocks
Overseas Reports Regarding SARS - [4/17/2003]
Apple Daily: The Story of How A Natural Disaster Turned Into a
Manmade Calamity - [4/17/2003]
Canadian Foreign Minister Answers Reporter's Question Regarding
the Chinese Party's Blocking Information About the Spread of SARS (Photo) - [4/17/2003]
AFP: China admits SARS hit Beijing on March 1, weeks before
acknowledged - [4/15/2003]
Globe And Mail: China's
failure (Photos) - [4/14/2003]
New York Times: A Beijing Doctor Questions Data on Illness - [4/13/2003]
Time Asia: Beijing's SARS Attack -- Doctor and party member
insists there are many more cases than officials will admit - [4/13/2003]
Doctors in Beijing: Patients Infected with SARS Far Outnumber
the Officially-Published Figure - [4/12/2003]
AFP: Chinese expert says
SARS in China not controlled as infection spreads - [4/12/2003]
AFP: China clams up on SARS information - [4/11/2003]
Taipei Times: [SARS] Crises illustrate Chinese failures
[Excerpt] - [4/10/2003]
Asia Times: Beijing loses big on SARS gamble [Excerpt] - [4/9/2003]
AFP: China under fire from WHO as experts intensify probe into
SARS - [4/8/2003]
Washington Post: China's Slow Reaction to Fast-Moving Illness - [4/7/2003]
AFP: China notoriously secretive over its own ailments - [3/29/2003]
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