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Making Foreign Serve China

Reporters looking for a job in Beijing, London and Elsewhere – IV

The New China Story Amsterdam, Feb. 18th 2021 “Making the Foreign Serve China” was one of Chairman Mao’s favoured strategies, as epitomised by his decision to grant access in the 1930s to the American journalist Edgar Snow. The resulting book, Red Star Over China, was instrumental in winning western sympathy for the Communists, whom it…
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Sam Summerlin

The Very Talented And Honourable Sam Summerlin

Con or no-conman Amsterdam, Feb. 10th 2021– First time I went to Astoria, New York, to the address Sam had given me, the owner of the building laughed at me when we met and I asked for Sam. He grinned somehow and said:  ‘ No, no, there is no Sam Summerlin living here. Does he…
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