May 2003
Transparently deceptive
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Yongtu: "I'll tell you when
you
can write about transparency"
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Long Yongtu, China's former vice-minister at the
finance and economy ministry and the country's chief
negotiator for its entry into the WTO, might want to forget
his performance at Credit Suisse First Boston's recent
investment conference in Hong Kong. It could haunt him for a
long time to come.
For his keynote address he decided he had the
perfect stage to lambast Hong Kong's press for its coverage
of the Sars crisis. Looking over the heads of the bankers and
investors and talking directly to the reporters at the back
he declared: "I am not very comfortable with the kind of
media reports in Hong Kong that have made so many people
panic." He said that the media should play more of a "calming
role" when reporting such stories. Presumably, one assumes,
like the mainland media. A delegate present says: "He was
basically saying that the press should be curbed to protect
the economy. Now that's really worrying."
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