Note: The report, in the penultimate paragraph, supplies the URL:
梅兆赞 Jonathan Mirsky, From Mao-fan to Counter-revolutionary in 48 Hours. 香港[信报] Hong Kong Economic Journal, Jan 8, 2011.
http://www.hkej.com/template/blog/php/blog_details.php?blog_posts_id=61267
, which has also a photograph of Mr Bernstein and a copy of
Richard Bernstein, A Bridge to a Love for Democracy. New York Times, Dec 30, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/us/30iht-letter30.html?scp=1&sq=%22richard%20bernstein%22%20china%20bridge&st=cse
(my last “Letter from America")
Note:
(a) Jonathan Mirsky was East Asia editor of the Times of London until 1998.
(b) Richard Bernstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bernstein
(He writes the Letter from America column for The International Herald Tribune; Spouse Zhongmei LI)
(c) stringer (n):
"6a : a news correspondent who is paid space rates
b : a reporter who works for a publication or news agency on a part-time basis; broadly : CORRESPONDENT"
Both definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(d) Menshevik
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menshevik
("minority"; Lenin's adherents were known as "Bolsheviks"--"majority").
(e) demagogue (n; Greek dēmagōgos, from dēmos people + agōgos leading, from agein to lead — more at tide, AGENT):
"a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power"