WANG Yang's Star Rising

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(1) Philip Wen, Wang Yang Wouldn't Admit It, of Course, But He May Be the Future Face of China. Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 7, 2012.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/wang ... 20120306-1uics.html

Quote:

"Mr Wang, who, like President Hu Jintao, comes from Anhui province, joked freely with reporters at a news conference on Monday. At one stage, Mr Wang, who makes no secret of his inability to grasp Guangdong's local dialect, poked fun at one British correspondent's attempt at a question. 'Your Mandarin is even harder to understand than Cantonese,' he said, prompting laughter from the room. * * * Perhaps it was just a tactful, disarming ploy to buy himself time. The question was direct and pertinent, about how he planned to push his credentials for a spot on the nine-man Politburo Standing Committee

Wang: "I'll be honest. When I decided to send my team to Wukan to investigate, it wasn't because the actual problem was too big, but it was because we had this idea that we could solve the problem and learn from the experience.

"It would now be seen as an upset if Mr Wang is not elevated to the Standing Committee.

Note:
(a) "find (or lose) one's tongue[:] be able (or unable) to express oneself after a shock <she found her tongue and shakily voiced her only fear>"
Oxford Dictionaries
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/tongue
(b) flippant (adj): "lacking proper respect or seriousness"
www.m-w.com

(2) Jeremy Page, Rising Official Takes Aim at China’s Political Culture. China Real Time, Mar 7, 2012
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealti ... -political-culture/
(Wang Yang's statements "during a discussion on political reform on Tuesday evening alongside Zhong Nanshan, a veteran medical expert from Guangdong who became famous for helping to expose and fight an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003")

My comment: The only physician who spoke out in the SARS I knew of was
Jiang Yanyong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Yanyong
(1931- ; a Chinese physician from Beijing)