CHINA Barack Obama on Wednesday made an obligatory stop at the Great Wall of China at the close of a three-day visit in which he also bumped against the “great firewall” of China.
Much like Richard Nixon, the president who first travelled behind the “bamboo curtain” in 1972 and helped set US-China relations on the road to normalisation, the sight of the snaking 2,000-year-old stone wall failed to elicit Mr Obama’s most memorable words.
