text: Woodward 's 1996 campaign finance pieces struck a chord that still rings , and I predict a similar impact for Barton Gellman 's two-part series last week about how the United States and China nearly went to war in 1996 ( click here and here ) .
  
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  Barton Gellman has a two part series about the US and China conflict in 1996 .