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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I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis.
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I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.
I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.
My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
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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