Xi in HK
In a brief speech upon his arrival, the Chinese president sought to strike a positive note about what he described as the city’s brighter future.
In a brief speech upon his arrival, the Chinese president sought to strike a positive note about what he described as the city’s brighter future.
The world could have been in a happier situation had President Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger not shown haste to go to Beijing to pay their respects to Mao Zedong in 1972. Their reasoning was that the Soviet Iron Curtain was impenetrable whereas the Chinese Bamboo Curtain was easier to enter
