After a reciprocal visit to the U.S. by a Chinese ping-pong team, President Richard Nixon was the first American president to visit China, and full U.S.-Chinese diplomatic relations were restored in 1979.

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IPOs in Hong Kong aren't a market these banks will drop, and in fact some of their peers continue to come in: Early last week, Chinese insurer Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. of China Ltd.

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In the late summer of 2007, a fifty-year-old former barber named Siu Yun Ping began making regular visits from his village, in Hong Kong, to the city of Macau, the only Chinese territory where it is legal to gamble in a casino.

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