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I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China.
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And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.
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I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.
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The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.
- Journalism
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Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
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In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.
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Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.
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Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience.
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A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.
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One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.
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I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.
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My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
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And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever.
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I've been shot at on numerous occasions.
- Job
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The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.
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For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army.
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