华春莹：纳瓦罗书中使用虚构专家抹黑中国令人 '震惊'

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VOA Chinese, Oct 22, 2019
https://www.voachinese.com/a/CHI ... 191022/5134230.html
("据美国《高等教育纪事报》10月15日报道，澳大利亚的一位教授对纳瓦罗这本书里多次出现的一位名为 '罗恩·瓦拉' 的经济学家进行了很多的研究，发现这个教授根本不存在。纳瓦罗在10月16日接受CNN电视采访的时候也坦承 '瓦拉' 并不存在，其实就是他自己 * * * 华春莹在10月22日的例行记者会")

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].' ")

Tessa Morris-Suzuki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessa_Morris-Suzuki