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John Roderick (September 15, 1914 – March 11, 2008) was an American journalist and foreign correspondent for the Associated Press news service. Roderick was best known for covering Mao Zedong and other Chinese Communist guerillas while living with them in a cave during the mid-1940s.〔 〕 Roderick continued to cover China throughout the rest of his career. He was considered to be a leading "China watcher," who covered the country from before the Chinese Communist victory of 1949 to the economic reforms during the 1980s.〔 He was once praised by Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai as the man who "opened the door" to China for foreign news media.〔〔 Roderick's career as a correspondent with the Associated Press spanned over fifty years, with postings in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.〔 Roderick reopened the Associated Press bureau in Beijing in 1979.〔 He continued to work with the AP as a special correspondent for the two decades following his retirement in 1984.〔 == Early life == John Roderick was born in Waterville, Maine, on September 14, 1914.〔 He was orphaned when he was just 16 years old.〔 His journalistic career began at the age of 15, when he began writing for a local newspaper, Waterville Morning Sentinel (now called The Central Maine Morning Sentinel).〔 He graduated from Colby College before joining the Associated Press office in Portland, Maine, in 1937.〔 Roderick moved to the Associated Press' office in Washington D.C. in 1942.〔 However, he was drafted into the United States Army in 1943 during World War II.〔 He was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, which was a precursor of the CIA, and sent to the city of Kunming, China, which is the capital of Yunnan province.〔 Kunming was a strategically important city at the end of the Burma Road with a large United States military base.〔 He rejoined the Associated Press after the end of World War II.〔
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