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18 Nov 09

All presidents bow to foreign leaders | FP Passport

  • The same thing happened when former President Bush nearly locked lips with
    Saudi royalty. When Richard Nixon was in China he gave a
    toast
    to Chairman Mao that included an excerpt of one of Mao's poems.
  • ThinkProgress points out
    similar occurrences and links to some photos of President Eisenhower bowing to just
    about anyone he can find
    , and I doubt there would have been much
    speculation about Ike's submissiveness.
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25 Oct 07

Feast, not famine, awaits at Mao-themed restaurants | FP Passport

A few restaurants in China have adopted this theme, which apparently stirs up nostalgia among older people. At Commune Mess Hall, the employees dress like Red Guards, wearing army fatigues and red "Serve the People" armbands. Portraits of Mao, Marx, and S

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China Mao restaurant

16 Jul 07

Jerome F. Keating's writings

Chiang Kai-shek used Taiwan as a place of refuge from which he could claim he was going to liberate China. Mao became obsessed with Taiwan because Chiang fled here; he in turn claimed he was going to liberate Taiwan. The Taiwanese were never given their o

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Taiwan history China politics Mao chiangkaishek

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