“Jimmy Carter really was facing a lot of opposition ... “What Carter did was he took that basic idea of the Shanghai communiqué and said, ‘How can we actually make that a reality?’” ...

On a bright January morning in 1979, then US president Jimmy Carter greeted a historic guest in Washington: Deng Xiaoping, the man who unlocked China's economy. The first leader of Communist China ...

Global stock markets were mixed on Thursday as Wall Street remained closed to honor the late former President Jimmy Carter ... percent to 19,240.89 while the Shanghai Composite index dipped ...