Ross H. Munro is co-author with Richard Bernstein of The Coming Conflict with China, a widely and respectfully reviewed book on America's inadequate response to the Beijing regime's expansionist plans in Asia. And he has just lost his day job. Munro was director of the Asia program at Philadelphia's Foreign Policy Research Institute. He's not talking about the circumstances surrounding his abrupt departure from FPRI. But other people knowledgeable about what happened say that's only because Munro's severance package requires his silence. And those people also report that Munro was sacked because FPRI was pressured by what his book calls "the new China lobby." Former secretary of state Alexander Haig, a trustee of FPRI, makes a living advising U.S. corporations that have business interests in China. He hated the book, we're told. And next thing anyone knows, Munro is suddenly fired.