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Max Baucus

...that kind of thing. And off I went to Beijing . That's the beginning. Thank you...
...something fairly draconian passed. So Beijing did it. That does not surprise me. Tha...
...between Xi and Obama. At the summit in Beijing in November around climate change...
...it's the G20 2015, Washington '14, and Beijing , we'd talk. It'd be somewha...
...conversation after the 2015 summit in Beijing . Not me alone; there were other...

...in the US mission in China. Thousand in Beijing , thousand rest of the country, all th...
...have had some security, driving around Beijing , ambassador's car, et.” No, n...
...middle of the night, almost anywhere in Beijing . Very safe. And you would visit th...
...core issues, they're inviolate. One is Tibet . The other is Hong Kong. The other i...
...for example, you were not able to go to Tibet . But were you able to go out t...
...Oh, yes, I could go anywhere, including Tibet . Oh, really? Including Xinjiang...
...Including Xinjiang. Oh, yes. I was in Tibet twenty-seven years ago for the firs...
...ago. So, it's interesting comparing Tibet then with Tibet four years ago, fiv...
...interesting comparing Tibet then with Tibet four years ago, five years ago. A...
...staff, because they want to go to Tibet . [Laughs] If I go, many of them ca...
...once, I was walking down the street of Chongqing in western China, about seven o'clock...
...month there, my wife and I went down to Shanghai , small little hole in the wal...
...close friends. Every time I visit Shanghai , we get together. During COVID, we'r...
...a couple times a week. I dub them my Shanghai five. And I always see my Shangha...
...my Shanghai five. And I always see my Shanghai five. They're just a real littl...