...Katherine A. Mason China faced the arrival of COVID-19 armed with new infrastructure, tools, and personnel that it had developed as part of a nationwide overhaul of its public health system in the wake of the 2003 SARS epidemic. The country learned two major lessons from SARS: it needed to increase...

.... During the 2003 SARS crisis, Hu and Wen visited SARS patients in hospitals. They fired the minister of public health and the mayor of Beijing for covering up the extent of the epidemic. On World AIDS Day in December 2003, Wen visited and shook hands with HIV/AIDS patients, the first top leader...

... of the University of California China Lester Brown SARS WTO USDA Japan United States food supply China Wildlife Conservation Association H5N1 270 The food-related China fears of yesterday the country s predicted inability to feed itself, thus putting an unbearable burden on global food...

...Joseph Fewsmith By challenging the Chinese to consider not only the accountability of their government, but also issues of openness, trust, responsiveness, and the ‘right to know,’ the sars crisis seems likely to provide a major impetus to new thinking about relations between society and state. ©...