Carter Recalls His Lifelong Fascination With China

Dec. 15, 2011

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter shares his good memories about China and views on Sino-U.S. relations during an exclusive interview with China Daily at a hotel in Beijing on Dec. 14, 2011. Carter has been in China for the past week to mark the 40th anniversary of Ping-Pong Diplomacy.

When a 7-year-old farmboy in Plains, Ga., opened a package from his seafaring uncle nearly eight decades ago, he found a delicate model of a wooden Chinese junk - and at that moment a lifelong fascination with China was born. Read full text >