Top Beijing Quotes
Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day that I was born, 13 April 1949, nineteen senior Nazi officials were...
Christopher Hitchens
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history, war, diplomacy, communism, birth, astronomy, alcohol, censorship, united states, newspapers
It would be nice to think that the menacing aspects of North Korea were for display also, that the bombs and reactors were Potemkin showcases or bargaining chips. On the plane from Beijing I met a gro...
Christopher Hitchens
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texas, china, nuclear weapons, north korea, bombs, beijing, baseball caps, iaea, north korea and wmd, nyongbyon