LOS ANGELES – Margaret Thatcher, who died last week, may not have been one “for turning,” as she dubbed her putative inability to not ever alter basic principled direction.
And when the first woman to become British prime minister first met the maximum leader of China, Deng Xiaoping, in 1982 — over the Hong Kong sovereignty issue — she wasn’t keen on losing.
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