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Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84
Cheney, who served under presidents from Nixon to George W Bush, will be remembered for controversial role aft…
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Henry Kissinger’s role in Bengali massacre | Letter
In 1971 he advised Nixon to side with Pakistan’s military dictator in his war with Bangladesh, then East Pakis…
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How Beethoven inspired 50 years of cultural exchange between the US and China
A new book tells how classical music, played to the Chinese by the Philadelphia Orchestra, ushered in decades …
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Fifty years on, ‘Nixon in China’ loses its sparkle in Beijing and Washington
The trip was hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough at the time but now critics in the US question its wisdomOn a…