Three reasons why the US and Europe won't make up
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1418969,00.html
China, Iran and Iraq all loom over Bush's bid to woo the Europeans
Niall Ferguson
Monday February 21, 2005
The Guardian
When Richard Nixon visited China in February 1972, the world was agog.
His reputation as an anti-communist and cold war hawk was well
established. China was in the grip of the cultural revolution, a
deranged civil war between the generations unleashed by Mao Zedong. And
yet there were Nixon and Mao swapping toasts and guzzling feasts in the
Forbidden City.
Niall Ferguson
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