This interview was first published in SCMP Plus ... What's your impression of Chinese leaders from Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping? Nixon was a devious and manipulative ...

In the fall of 1949, Mao Zedong stood atop Beijing's Tiananmen gate and proclaimed the establishment ... For all the headaches caused by U.S. policy toward China in the postwar period, it may have ...