Foreign Media Coverage
Mr. White was interviewed by Guangzhou's leading newspaper, Southern Metropolis Daily, on September 4, for whom he provided a computer image of the lost/stolen passport in question, in addition to a family photo of his father's 85 birthday party from July 31 in Austin, Texas. The English language publication Shenzhen Daily also ran a story the same day. A Russian Newsweek interview with Mr. White from September 8 appears not to support the Russian government's accusation, and other Russian sites have noted the US State Department's confirmation of White's claim that the passport was reported lost/stolen and canceled in October 2005. Russian state television Channel One (ORT), however, appears to have repeated the government's innuendos against White in a 14 September broadcast. Several weeks later, an October 2008 article in the Chinese weekly magazine Southern Weekly summarized the chronology of events.
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