CHINESE megastar Jet Li (pic) once told former US state secretary Henry Kissinger that “he preferred (to help) his billion Chinese compatriots rather than shield (just) one man”.
Kissinger was impressed with Li’s performance in a two-man wushu fight at the Rose Garden some three decades ago, and had proposed the young lad to be a bodyguard when he grew up. Li was then 11.
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