On the Boston University campus Wednesday morning, the president of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, Shuang Guo, said that the group was planning a memorial service for Ms. Lu.
"In terms of hardware, I don't worry, and I think that Hong Kong is the best-prepared city in the world, " said Justin Wu of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, one of the doctors on the front lines during the SARS crisis.
"Nine years from now, if she can convince the prison that she is suffering from a serious illness, there would be a legal basis to release her, " said Joshua Rosenzweig, an expert on China's criminal-justice system at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Zhu Feng, an expert on Chinese foreign policy at Peking University, described the latest nuclear test as a "paradigm change" and a signal that Pyongyang appeared set on moving ahead to bolster its weapons capabilities.
Mr. KENNETH LIEBERTHAL (Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan): The rhetoric on Capitol Hill about Chinese motives, and about how to deal with China over this issue, was hyperbolic.
Boston University and the Chinese Consulate in New York both said on Tuesday that a Chinese graduate student had been killed in the bombing but withheld the name at the family's request.
"There's no question that China is very sensitive to its image, " said Stanley Rosen, an expert on the Chinese film industry, and director of the East Asian Studies Center at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Richard Suttmeier, a University of Oregon expert on Chinese science policy, said China hasn't figured out "the right formula" to pioneer new technologies in part because researchers are rewarded according to the number of academic papers they publish rather than the quality and novelty of their work.
According to the China Media Project, a group based at Hong Kong University which monitors the Chinese media, this week's letter was scheduled to be released on Thursday.
With lower portfolio risk, local investors would also theoretically be able to pay more for Chinese companies, says William Goetzmann, a professor at Yale University who has published a rare paper on the pre-war ties between China's financial markets and the rest of the world.
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