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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…

— John Pomfret

Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience.

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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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But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their…

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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 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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When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I…

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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…

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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…

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I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took…

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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…

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Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't…

— John Pomfret