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Chinese Media Takes Parting Shot at Locke (Updated)
The New York Times’ Michael Forsythe reports on departing United States ambassador Gary F. Locke’s farewell news conference in Beijing yesterday and the racially charged comments from a Chinese news organization that followed: “His carefully chosen words were not well received by the state-run China News Service. Following Mr. Locke’s remarks, it published a scathing review of his tenure modeled after a famous August 1949 essay by Mao Zedong,February 28, 2014