Simplicity : Beijing 1954 and London 2009

Tea for Two. Hope it was Jasmine tea. Premier Wen Jia Bao and PM Gordon Brown 2009.





1954 photo of Mayor of Beijing entertaining the British Labour Party Delegation - Open air cocktail party. (Photo from COrbis)

Original caption: Aneurin Bevan and other members of the British Labor Party delegation visiting Red China chat with Communist officials of the Ministry of Foreign Trade around a fruit-laden table in Peking. Seated in front, left to right, are: Yeh Chi-Chuang, Foreign Trade Minister; Bevan; Morgan Phillips; Harry Earnshaw; and W. Burke (smoking), all members of the delegation. An open-air cocktail party given August 25th by Peking mayor Peng Chen wound up the Britons visit to the Red Chinese capital.
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