It was Jimmy Carter who established full diplomatic ties with China in January 1979, against the strong opposition he faced in the US Congress. - AFP
BEIJING: On a bright September day in 2003, former US president Jimmy Carter told a small audience of 150 students and faculty at Peking University that “democracy is not a scary thing”.
The venue was a beautiful old building – sloped roof, lattice windows and vermilion columns – but small, for a reason.
