Dragon Strike: The Millennium War

About the Author(s)

HUMPHREY HAWKSLEY has been a BBC Correspondent in Asia for ten years. In the eighties he was in Sri Lanka, India and the Philippines. From 1990, he was based in Hong Kong as a regional correspondent. He has reported from more than twenty Asian countries during the most exciting time of their twentieth-century development. In 1994 he was appointed China Bureau Chief and became the BBC's first television correspondent based in Beijing. Since then he has travelled extensively through the country.

SIMON HOLBERTON has completed two tours of Asia. Most recently he was Hong Kong Bureau Chief for the Financial Times (1992-6) where he reported on China's preparations for the takeover of the colony, and the modernization of its vast economy. In the mid-1980s he reported on Japan and Korea for the Melbourne Age (1984-6). In 1996 he returned to the Financial Times in Britain where he writes about energy.