tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753589427119541238.post2492359221970185958..comments2023-07-05T09:38:23.624+01:00Comments on The Half-Dipper: Chinese, IIIHobbeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10719619695211038389noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753589427119541238.post-37880951253349294862014-10-29T12:46:54.257+00:002014-10-29T12:46:54.257+00:00Chinese press conferences are tremendously amusing...Chinese press conferences are tremendously amusing. Those photographs of Kissinger meeting Mao came to mind. The translator, almost conspiratorial, whispered into my left ear as the journalists and my fellow academics conducted the interrogation in Mandarin.<br /><br />"One must be very careful about what one says, for it will appear in print", warned the chief scientific officer of Hobbeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10719619695211038389noreply@blogger.com