In a Joint Statement in June 1954, Zhou Enlai and Jawaharlal Nehru elaborated ... We would not do otherwise unless we are false to everything India has stood for in the past and stands for today.

Could they, he wondered, meet to discuss “matters of mutual concern”? Zhou was a busy man. CEO of a nation mired in the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, he was hatching a scheme of world-changing ...

The word “hohi” popped in my head as I wondered whether Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai (1898-1976) actually used that expression--or not--during the Japan-China talks leading up to the ...