Edition: U.S. / Global  Police Try to Build Bridge to China
Published: June 1, 1996  Capt. George Duke arrived in China this
week with four fellow New York City police officers on a
pioneering mission: to team up with local Chinese police to
fight the burgeoning criminal networks that operate between New
York City and Fujian Province, a rocky and forbidding region on
China's southern coast.  Captain Duke was hoping to roll up his
sleeves and exchange information on criminal gangs, interview
suspects in custody, and discuss coordinated strategy. While he
told his fellow officers not to hope for too much, Captain Duke
expected at the very least to sit down with the local police
chief who helped solve a New York kidnapping in February, a case
of police-to-police cooperation that offered great promise in
fighting Fujianese-American gangs.  No such luck. Captain Duke
and his fellow N.Y.P.D. Blue were taken to banquets and tourist
sites, and to formal meetings with high-ranking officials who
assured him that they