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September 17th 2009 If you’d told me way back as a kid that I’d be flying to Beijing one day, I’m not sure I’d have known what to think.
Back then China was something of an unknown quantity, a mysterious Red Giant which, while not as likely to blow us to kingdom-come as the bloody Ruskies, still definitely resided in the ‘Not To Be Trusted’ file.
The truth is I, like the rest of the world in those days,
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