Reading the future
By Andrew Moody | China Daily | Updated: 2017-02-17 07:37
Late British prime minister Edward Heath had global vision of China even in the 1970s, his biographer Michael McManus writes. Andrew Moody reports.
Michael McManus believes Edward Heath was a pivotal figure in China's opening up to the West.
The former British prime minister - the subject of the British author's new biography - famously first met with Chairman Mao in 1974, and regularly visited the country thereafter.
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