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To subscribe to the magazine, click here . For Americans who knew him, Chinese Senior Colonel Xu Junping was the least likely army officer to defect to the United States. But somewhere along the way, disillusionment set in. At the end of December, he travelled alone to the United States. Colleagues waited for him at New York's Kennedy airport, but Xu never showed up.