January 1979. What I remember most about meeting Deng Xiaoping in January 1979 at the Great Hall of the People was NOT the lengthy session during which the new relationship with the United States was hailed and warnings of the dangers of “Soviet Hegemony” voiced.   Rather it was the spittoon that was placed strategically and yet discreetly next to the “paramount leader’s” chair. MORE COMING SOON

February 1979. It was very much like an American Presidential state visit.   For the first time a press plane packed with reporters followed a Chinese leader across America, chronicling his every move: from a White House cabinet meeting to a Texas rodeo. MORE COMING SOON

Summer 1981.  Wu Hongbo - blue Mao suit, blue workers cap - greeted me each morning at the new ABC News bureau in the dusty Qian Men Fan Dian near the Temple of Heaven.   He was always there before me, at his desk improving his English vocabulary with a large stack of English-Chinese flashcards.   Wu would guide me through my first two years as we struggled to establish the first American television network bureau in China.   MORE COMING SOON

June 1989.  0200 4/6.  I assigned myself to the hospitals that night. I wanted to measure the true extent of the military massacre.  How many dead?  How many wounded? After a power struggle at the very top, the government shattered the dreams of a generation of young Chinese.  The scene at the Beijing Children's Hospital was chaotic.   MORE COMING SOON

June 1989. How does it feel to ruin man's life? I don't suppose many journalists spend time pondering that question.   I don't know how many reporters can say that through their work, through their medium, they have landed an innocent man in jail.   MORE COMING SOON