Question: Which New Zealand-born press reporter was seen as a leftist communist sympathiser, in Jasper Becker's "Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine"?
Sentence (from "Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine"): Becker concludes that the tragedy could have been averted after the first year if Mao's senior advisers had dared to confront him.
Relevant evidence: No