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HRTV President Debra T. Mao ’05 said the news of Fonseca’s death came as “a shock...
...None of us thought he was troubled,” Mao said. “In general, he wasn’t a depressed person...
...When Mao Zedong's Communist revolution completed its sweep of the mainland in 1949, the oft-asked question in Washington was who had "lost" China. Former American spy, diplomat and straight shooter James Lilley argues in his sweeping memoir China Hands that this historical puzzler is a red herring: America never had China, and the very idea is counterproductive. To influence China, America first has to respect that the vast land has its own interests and ways. Lilley knows. He was born in Qingdao, the son of an American oil executive, and China has been the center of his life...
...Lilley was recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) right out of Yale, and his dozen postings included Laos, Hong Kong and Beijing, where with Mao's consent he was the first U.S. intelligence attach? to Communist China. Lilley has little positive to say about the CIA's activities in Asia, and many of his tales end in tragedy or farce, such as the incident in which a group of visiting U.S. congressmen debriefed a senior agent one afternoon in Vientiane only to stumble upon the same officer later that night laying naked on the floor of a bar, braying...
...must compromise, as News Corp. officials know. In 1993, the company removed the BBC from its Chinese-language Star satellite network-which at the time had government permission to be shown in hotels and foreign compounds-after the British news service irritated Beijing with a series critical of Chairman Mao Zedong. But with 340 million TV households, China is a plummy market awaiting those who gain the government's favor. Last year, advertising reached $2.7 billion, up 11% over the year before. And Beijing is showing signs of loosening up. Earlier this year it began allowing foreign companies...