A few days later, I met Chairman Mao Zedong himself for the first time ... including Zhao Enlai and Liu Shaoqi, took place at the house of reception, a former imperial garden adjacent to the ...

The post also included archival footage of Mao Zedong, who founded the People’s Republic of China, speaking in 1953 when the U.S. and China were on opposite sides of the Korean War.