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But in Asia, where participatory politics is getting a trial run, perhaps the lessons of that day should not go unheeded. <b>- Gary LaMoshi</b> <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jun 3, '03)</font><br><br><a href="/web/20030604134723/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/EF04Ad05.html "><strong>SARS: Deception, by the numbers</strong></a><br>China is winning the war against severe acute respiratory syndrome. Or is it? Asia Times Online has uncovered evidence that Chinese authorities are back to the book-cooking ways that they denounced before the world on April 20. <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jun 3, '03)</font><br><br><a href="/web/20030604134723/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/EF04Ad01.html "><strong>Phlegm: China's Public Enemy No 1?</strong></a><br>With the war on SARS still raging, city governments across China have turned their attention to a long-standing tradition, spitting. <b>David Bandurski</b> argues that China's war on phlegm is a campaign of half-measures. <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jun 3, '03)</font><br><br><a href="/web/20030604134723/http://atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/EF04Ag01.html"><strong>Hu makes his mark in Central Eurasia</strong></a><br>President Hu Jintao's visit to Russia and Kazakhstan provided the Chinese leader the opportunity to address some nitty-gritty economic and defense issues central to Beijing's strategic goals in Central Eurasia - as well as rub shoulders with another budding player in the region, India. - <b>Sergei Blagov</b> <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jun 3, '03)</font><br><br><a href="/web/20030604134723/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/EF03Ad03.html "><strong> New SARS disaster looms in Beijing</strong></a><br><img hspace="3" src="/web/20030604134723im_/http://atimes.com/atimes//images/beijing1-small.gif" align="left" vspace="3" border="0"> Before March, few people knew of Amoy Gardens. That all changed once the residential complex experienced the largest localized outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome to date. Beiyuan Gardens, a residential complex on the outskirts of Beijing, is on the brink of becoming the Chinese capital's very own Amoy Gardens. <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jun 2, '03)</font></font><br><strong><br>BANKING BUNKUM<br></strong></font><a href="/web/20030604134723/http://atimes.com/atimes/Asian_Economy/EE31Dk01.html "><font size="2"><strong>Part 4b: The Japanese experience</strong> </font></a><br><font color="#000000" size="2">The rapid change in global economics to a system driven by US dollar hegemony caught Japan, with its long-standing policy of a high-export regime and large trade surpluses, wrong-footed. The result has been a long period of economic stagnation. But, <b>Henry C K Liu</b> notes in this installment of his case against central banking, a new factor has entered the equation: a growing symbiosis between the Japanese and Chinese economies. <font color="#999999" size="1">(May 30, '03)</font> </font><br><br><a href="/web/20030604134723/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/EE31Ad04.html "><strong><font size="2">China vs SARS: A good dog is a dead dog</font> </strong></a><br><font size="2"><font color="#000000">As China continues its fight against severe acute respiratory syndrome, many people are killing their house pets, as well as the pets of others. However, scientists have yet to produce any evidence proving that pets can transmit SARS to humans. Try telling that to Nanjing's "Dog-Beating Corps". </font></font><font size="1"><font color="#999999">(May 30, '03)</font><br></font></font></font> </font></font></font></font></font></font><font size="2"><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#ff0000"><br>   <img hspace="0" src="/web/20030604134723im_/http://atimes.com/atimes//images/arrow.gif" border="0"><a href="/web/20030604134723/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/EE31Ad03.html"><font color="darkblue">China's newest SARS victim: The civet cat<br></font></a><br></font><font color="#ff0000"><strong>BOOK REVIEW</strong></font><br><a href="/web/20030604134723/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/EE31Ad02.html "><strong>The art of investment</strong></a><br><i><b>Sun Tzu on Investing</i></b> by <b>Curtis J Montgomery</b> <br>It is hard to find anything new to tell equity investors, especially after the dot-com bubble burst. But a recent book that uses the insights of ancient Chinese General Sun Tzu just might have something that fits the bill. <b>- Gary LaMoshi</b> <font color="#999999" size="1">(May 30, '03)</font><br><br><a href="/web/20030604134723/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/EE30Ad01.html"><strong>Taiwan and the SARS blame game</strong></a><br> Taiwan has tried to use its response to the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome to distinguish itself from mainland China, claiming that it has conducted its fight against SARS in a transparent manner. However, some say the island's handling of SARS has been less than ideal - and there is plenty of blame to go around. <b>- Michael Taylor</b> <font color="#999999" size="1"> (May 29, '03)</font><br> <br> <a href="/web/20030604134723/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/EE30Ad02.html"><strong>Beijing's SARS cases - and vigilance - waning</strong></a><br> While the swift decrease in severe acute respiratory syndrome cases in Beijing is undoubtedly a good thing, the new relaxed atmosphere that has come with it could come back to bite China's capital. <font color="#999999" size="1">(May 29, '03)</font><br> <br> <a href="/web/20030604134723/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/EE29Ad01.html "><strong>SARS haze obscures China's economic future</strong></a><br> The lifting of travel advisories for Guangdong province and Hong Kong by the World Health Organization on Friday may have raised hopes for China's economy. 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