BANGKOK — China has suffered most from the deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus with thousands of victims, a few hundred deaths and new cases being uncovered daily as the disease spreads from major cities to the countryside.
The fascinating question still to be answered is whether the biggest casualty of SARS might still be the ailing, diseased but powerful Communist Party rule over the world's largest country.
SARS has exposed China's leaders and shown them to be withholding information, dissembling, prevaricating and indeed openly lying.
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