Source: United States & Canada – South China Morning PostNicholas Platt, the long-time US diplomat who helped engineer the restoration of American ties with Beijing, said on Thursday that economic ties would keep the relationship intact despite hard-line policies enacted under Chinese President Xi Jinping.Platt, who accompanied Richard Nixon on the 1972 presidential trip that led to Washington’s official diplomatic recognition of China and then set up the first US diplomatic outpost there since 1949, said that the people and organisations driving…Read More