Chinese President Hu Jintao and his wife Liu Yongqing greet US President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush at the Great Hall of People on August 8 in Beijing
"We played tennis and lost. George was tired, and I played lousy.'' So wrote former U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush in his diary on June 4, 1975. The George who was tired that day was Bush's son and current President George W. Bush jet-lagged, no doubt, because the court they played on was in Beijing. "Bush 43" was then fresh out of Harvard Business School, and "Bush 41" was chief of the first U.S. Liaison Office in China's capital the de facto embassy just before Beijing and Washington re-established full diplomatic...
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