Somewhere in China’s security network sits a photo of President Jiang Zemin and me. I’ve never seen it, but now that Jiang has finally died, aged 96, I feel deep in the bones that I should be filing a story on it all. People might not know. This will have to do.
I was with Agence France-Presse in 1999 and Auckland was hosting the APEC leaders summit. N…
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