"Half a million men are eyeball to eyeball," says Mohan Guruswamy, a China expert in Delhi.
Sam Crane, a China expert at Williams College, suggested that the government censorship machine was counterproductive.
But China expert Tabitha Mallory believes there is more to it.
"That's minuscule," said Jonathan Sinton, a China expert at the International Energy Agency.
When the books got muddled, the China expert phoned to alert Morrison to the mix-up.
He has "significant knowledge of China," said Nicholas Lardy, a China expert at the Brookings Institution.
PROFILE of John Service, retired diplomat & China expert, who, between 1945 & the 1950s, was unremittingly harassed by Sen. Jos.
Mr Rudd, a Mandarin-speaking China expert, opposed a security pact that Australia's former government signed with Japan last year.
Another critique came from Michel Oksenberg, a China expert who served on the National Security Council during the Carter presidency.
Ranping Song, the group's China expert, called the announcement "a tremendous milestone" in the fight against climate change.
"There is nothing pragmatic about what's happening in Taiwan," says Kenneth Lieberthal, a China expert at the University of Michigan.
