" China has a limitless capacity to fascinate but it is not Disneyland. It is, as it has been since 1949, a communist dictatorship held together by brute force "
-Richard Nixon
"Only some truly extraordinary experience, both novel and overwhelming, restores the innnocence of the years when each day was a precious adventure ... This is how it was for me as the aircraft crossed the snow-capped Himalayas, thrusting toward the heavens in the roseate glow of a rising sun. "
- Henry Kissinger