the black China hand

With the Saturday morning announcement of the nomination of Utah governor Jon Huntsman for appointment as the US Ambassador to China, I got to thinking about how many China Hands are in the Obama Administration. By my cursory count there are at least three (and counting): Huntsman, Gary Locke, Timothy Geithner. On deeper reflection, I got to thinking about the original group of people who coined the term China Hand (and in full self-disclosure, this is the group of people that inspired the name of this very blog). My reflection further lead to this short 1971 Times Magazine article describing two of the most well known of American China Hands (and the trials/tribulations that they went through). Enjoy.

The Old China Hands