Interspersed throughout are my personal stories and life-changing experiences my childhood in China, my arrival in the United States, and my visits back to China over the years.
In my years in China, I have learned that there are only two rules.
The Joint Command of the US Armed Forces hosted the very first US-China joint military concert, on my birthday, in my hometown, to celebrate thirty years of US-China engagement.
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And due to improved cross-straits relations in recent years, my business in China is doing quite well.
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Two years ago my neighbor went to China, but not exactly for a sightseeing vacation.
With all due respect, I have taken a full 30 years to Not Write my book demystifying China.
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After slaving for three years building up my firm, the China Market Research Group, positioned as higher than McKinsey in price and quality for strategy projects focused on China, I feared losing it all.
After 10 years of hiding my identity and living in fear in China, I decided to risk going to South Korea.
And he went back to China, had a family, and so my father was also born in China, and came over as a teenager a few years later.
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"In my factory in China, the salary of workers has been increasing steadily over the last few years, " she told me during her recent visit to Bangladesh to look for opportunities here.
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So my only concern is that, yeah, China may become a democracy in 50 or 60 years, but we have to live through the intervening decades and face the strategic realities that are going to exist during that period.
In my view, whatever utility the "One China" diplomatic fiction might have had twenty-five years ago has been erased by the new reality.
In September, I visited China, where my organization, the Natural Resources Defense Council, has been active for nearly 15 years.
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