Note:
(a) Tom Bartlett, Trump's 'China Muse' Has an Imaginary Friend. Who is Ron Vara? He seems to exist only in the books of Peter Navarro. Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct 15, 2019. https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20191015-navarro
(i) The report is locked behind paywall.
(ii) The origin of China Muse:
Adam Davidson, Trump's Muse on US Trade with China. New Yorker, Oct 12, 2016 https://www.newyorker.com/busine ... -s-trade-with-china
, which said "muse" (in the title only, not in the text), not "China Muse."
(iii) The Chronicle of Higher Education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicle_of_Higher_Education
(1966- ; based in DC; appears weekly in print except for every other week in May, June, July, and August and the last three weeks in December)
(b) Ben Westcott and Christine Romans, Trump's Top China Adviser Appears to Have Made up Expert He Regularly Quoted. CNN, Oct 16, 2019 https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/p ... intl-hnk/index.html
("In his 2011 book 'Death by China,' President Donald Trump's senior adviser Peter Navarro quoted [twice] a China hawk named 'Ron Vara' * * * [who] is even referenced in the index. * * * Australian academic Tessa Morris-Suzuki, a professor emeritus of Japanese history at the Australian National University. She told CNN that she tried to find Vara * * * 'Then I realized the anagram [of Navarro].' ")