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你好 Hong Kong, where is my hill?
by Dominique Curchod
Dominique Curchod is a journalist and TV producer. He
advises a number of Olympic federations and major watchmaking brands, for which he suggests the appropriate formats
and media approaches to increase their worldwide visibility
and exposure on visual media – from TV to social media. He
has a huge global network of contacts in the media world and
which allows him to ensure that his clients are always present.
But his (almost) secret garden is a property in Tuscany, on
the coast, facing Elba, which he manages with his partner
Francesca: a boutique hotel, a restaurant, a farm: a corner of
paradise called Poggio ai Santi.

China opened itself to the world at the end of the 1970s.
Slowly. First came the small steps of American tennis
table teams. Artists like Yehudi Menuhin gave concerts
and talks: sport and culture. Then the great political leap
forward, with a visit by Nixon in February 1972.

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For the West, the China of the 1960s and 1970s
was somewhat like today’s North Korea. A sort
of «hic sunt leones» that was only heard about
via the eulogistic or provocative communiqués
of the Xinhua agency.