Chess vs Wei Qi

Henry Kissinger’s book On China arrived in the capital’s bookshops on the eve of the 23rd anniversary of Tiananmen Square on June 6. Today, that episode may be a blip in the history of a country with a four-millennia-old civilisation and continuous nationhood since 221 BC. In 1989, however, it rattled China, brought into question Deng Xiaoping’s economic pragmatism and soured Chinese relations with the West, particularly the US.

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