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(a) The Jamestown Foundation’s Fifth Annual China Defense and Security Conference. The Jamestown Foundation, Jan 20, 2015 www.jamestown.org/press/events/s ... 2b35e99b50fffbcaf54
(The conference to be held Thursday, March 12, 2015 8 AM – 5:00 PM, at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC; Tickets are $65)
(b) The only news report I can find about the conference is as follows.
William Lowther, Campbell Urges US, PRC Not to Meddle. Taipei Times, Mar 14, 2015 (available now). www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/03/14/2003613522
(“Campbell said that he had spent quite a bit of time with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) and that Xi had a ‘very hard-headed’ approach to security dynamics. Xi’s predecessors in Beijing were elderly men, but Xi was often ‘the last man to leave the bar,’ he said, adding that Xi was “extraordinarily engaging and comfortable in his own skin’“)
* Regarding "the last man to leave the bar." I do not know why the journalist emphasized it. Definitely not a phrase, the words literally meaning what they say. My speculation is Mr Campbell alluded to 中国最后一个共产主义信徒, but then why the journalist (Lowther) precedes “last man” with “predecessors in Beijing were elderly men” and “often.”
* hardheaded (adj): "stubborn, willful" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-headed 作者: choi 时间: 3-13-2015 16:18
I was stuck for half a day about the meaning of “the last man to leave a bar.” Then a second VOA report comes out, derived from the same conference.