Pomfret's

In John Pomfret's book, Chinese Lessons, the veteran correspondent revisits the students with whom, 20 years previously, he had shared a dormitory as a trail-blazing American exchange student in China in the 1970s.

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But that is no excuse for the completely erroneous screed that appeared on WaPo this week in Pomfret's China, the Post blog feature.

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Pomfret's accusations are basically a run-down of Beijing/KMT talking points: ....

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It almost makes a kind of sense, but that is only because everything important to assessing the answer to that question is missing from the Pomfret's discussion, as it generally is from media presentations on the Taiwan-China relationship.

Archive 2008-04-01 Michael Turton 2008

Pomfret's main idea is that Taiwan offers a democratic model that can change China, and that the meeting between Vice-president Elect Vincent Siew and China's leader, Hu Jin-tao, is A Really Good Thing.

Archive 2008-04-01 Michael Turton 2008

Pomfret's presentation omits a number of key facts.

Archive 2008-04-01 Michael Turton 2008

On March 30th, a few days after Pomfret's article appeared, NBC's "Today Show" aired a video report of this folly.

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I saw Laura, a pretty girl, in the garden at Englefield some years since, when I was airing in Lady Pomfret's coach; and as we looked, the little hoyden Maria comes running up in muslin and blue ribbons, all health and youth and blooming cheeks and brown curls and eyes -- a perfect

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Pomfret's, when his father read him one piece in the book to amuse him.

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Mr.. Pomfret's, the hired men of three of his neighbours, a few modest souls who habitually took off their hats to him, and Mr. Ball, of the village, who sold groceries to Wedderburn and was a general handy man for the summer people.

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