The man who also loves China

British writer Simon Winchester fell under the country's spell 30 years ago, and that passion endures, as Hu Haiyan discovers.

China could one day have as great and important a presence in the world's oceans as the United States does today, says Simon Winchester, a veteran British writer, journalist and broadcaster.

"No one, least of all the United States, can doubt the growing and very visible importance of China in all of the western Pacific," he says.