I’m an American journalist who has been covering Asia for over 30 years, following a decade of reporting in California and Alaska, and a year at the Reuters Journalism Fellowship Program at Oxford University. From bases in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Thailand, I’ve
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