MEDIA ADVISORY

The outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) presents the new Chinese leadership with its first major crisis. It has placed a severe strain on China’s public health system and on national and local governments and had a dramatic impact on travel, tourism and business transactions.

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission will hold its first public hearing of 2003 on the implications of the SARS outbreak for two areas vital to the Commission’s assessment of economic and security issues: the Chinese Government’s media control practices and the growth of China’s economy. The hearing will focus on what the SARS crisis has revealed about Chinese Government policies and practices regarding control of information and the media and will review US Government and private sector efforts to improve the flow of uncensored information into China. It also will explore the short- and potential long-term economic impact of SARS on China and the region.

What:

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission hearing on: "SARS in China: Implications for Media Control and the Economy"

When:

Thursday, June 5, 2003 – 9:30 am to 5:00 pm


Where:

Room 124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, 1st & Constitution Ave., NE, Washington, DC 20510


Commissioners:

Roger W. Robinson, Jr. (Commission Chairman and Hearing Co-Chair),
C. Richard D’Amato (Commission Vice Chairman and Hearing Co-Chair), Carolyn Bartholomew, George Becker, Stephen D. Bryen, June Teufel Dreyer, Robert F. Ellsworth, Michael A. Ledeen, Patrick A. Mulloy, William A. Reinsch, Michael R. Wessel, and Larry M. Wortzel.

Participants: (click here for a REVISED AGENDA, posted 6/9/03)

9:30 to 10:30 am Congressional Perspectives

Senate Delegation Trip to China and Taiwan

• Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) and other Members to be announced

Sponsors of Global Internet Freedom Act

• Members to be announced

10:30–Noon Panel 1: SARS’ Impact on Media Control and Governance I

• Dan Southerland, Executive Editor, Radio Free Asia
• Ken Berman, Manager, Anti--Censorship Program, International Broadcasting Bureau
• Jay Henderson, Director, East Asia & Pacific Division, Voice of America
  

1:00 – 3:00 pm Panel 2: SARS’ Impact on Media Control and Governance II

• Xiao Qiang, Director, China Internet Studies Program, UC Berkeley
• Erping Zhang, Executive Director, Assoc. for Asian Research
• Bill Xia, President, Dynamic Internet Technology
• Maochun Yu, Professor, U.S. Naval Academy
  

3:10 – 5:00 pm Panel 3: SARS and its Economic Implications

• Yuanli Liu, Asst. Professor, International Health, Harvard
  School of Public Health
• Andy Rothman, Country Head & China Strategist, CLSA Emerging Markets
• Dong Tao, Chief Economist for non-Japan Asia, Credit Suisse First Boston (Hong Kong)
• Dexter Roberts, Beijing Bureau Chief, Business Week

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