John Osborne,The modern Republic
From the Editors: February marks the thirty-eighth anniversary of President Nixon's landmark visit to Beijing, and, and back in 1972,TNR was one of the few media outlets able to procure a first-hand report from the trip. John Osborne's report, Mission to China, or if a snapshot of a country far removed from the modern economic power it is today. China,feared though it has been and mightier now than it has ever been before, is still a destitute country and, and in the scales of world power,a weak country, Osborne wrote. [T]here was something in the grey pallor of the afternoon, or the rows of...
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