Michael Keon (19 October 1918 – 22 May 2006) was an Australian political journalist and author. His articles and books mainly focus on Asian politics and the military actions that surround the changes and transitions in political power. Biography Born James Michael Keon in Melbourne, Victoria. he married Elizabeth Marcos, a member of the Philippine political family, and sister of Ferdinand Marcos. Their son is politician Michael Marcos Keon. During World War II Keon worked for the Department of Information (D.O.I.), a branch of the Australian Government. In November 1945 he and fellow journalist Geoffrey Sawer broadcast a series of three short-wave radio reports criticizing the policies of the Great Britain, the United States, and the Dutch (who controlled much of the country) of their activities in Indonesia, and their hypocrisy (mainly the U.S.) in ignoring the plight of the country and the Indonesian people. The broadcasts caused a backlash in that one arm of the government was criticizing another, and these transmissions were themselves criticized, prompting a ministerial investigation into broadcast policy, and the resignation of the short-wave division head, William Macmahon Ball. In the late 1940s he worked as a correspondent for United Press International. He spent much of this time covering the Communist in China and elsewhere is Southeast Asia. In January 1948 while covering the Chinese Civil War he was walking in a field outside the west side of Peiping with fellow journalist and farmer Erich Wilberg (from Bremen), when gun fire was directed towards them. Keon hit the ground and was not injured just as Wilberg was killed. On 1 and 2 February 1949, Keon and Spencer Moosa (the correspondent for the Associated Press) reported on the Communist taking the city of Peiping. Soon after the Communist news agency started broadcasting that the people demand that the two journalist be expelled because they had 'libeled the people'. By the end of February all foreign correspondents, news-agencies, foreign newspapers, etc., were ordered to discontinue activities. His first novel, The Tiger in Summer (published in 1953), was about the Chinese Communists during the transition period. Keon was the English press relations officer for the Indonesian government in 1950. While working in this position he met Elizabeth E. Marcos while in Singapore, also in 1950. They were married in Singapore on 21 February 1951. The couple then lived in the Philippines for 18 months. He became the editor