My first trip to China apparently began in Montreal.It was April 1971, and the American ping-pong team had just been invited to China, opening the public part of the complex diplomacy that eventually brought Richard Nixon to Beijing and direct relations between the U.S. and the People’s Republic. I was then the Washington-based diplomatic correspondent for the Wall Street
The response from Beijing was swift and stinging after the European Parliament passed a resolution in January calling for action on the “deterioration” of media independence in Hong Kong and repeated calls for sanctions on its top officials.