Source: China – South China Morning PostIn late January, soon after Joe Biden entered the White House, Chinese Vice-President Wang Qishan had a long conversation with an American guest in Beijing.John Thornton, a Wall Street veteran who had previously headed Goldman Sachs, is an old friend who had known Wang, President Xi Jinping’s right-hand man, when he was still a mid-level official in the 1990s.The pair steered their conversation far beyond day-to-day politics and talked about Chinese and American history, the clash of…Read More