[Dog Gone]

Mr Fernandes said that Shanghai, for example, had only two confirmed SARS cases among its 17 million residents as of April 24.

That's a very disturbing statement by Fernandes, because nobody in the world believes those figures. The World Health Organization on Friday said that those numbers had to be revised upward, probably in excess of 100 after they visited there.

Fernandes is aware of this. Yet he has chosen to align his statement with those Chinese officials who are deliberately understating the problem.

There's a hidden agenda, all right. It's just not on the part of those he suggests.

[CathyRyan]

I thought everyone would get a kick out of that little corker. :)

[aristeides]

I'm not sure I would take it as a given that Fernandes actually made that statement until I see it reported someplace else besides the Red Chinese press.