Nicholas Griffin is a journalist and author of four novels and one work of non-fiction, about “ping-pong diplomacy.” His writing has appeared in The Times (UK), Financial Times, Foreign Policy, and other publications on topics as disparate as sports and politics, piracy, filmmaking in the Middle East, and the natural sciences.

Last Updated: March 20, 2015

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Nicholas Griffin
Way back when, let’s say in 2012, the city of Miami and the country of China rarely mixed in sentences. Since then, connections between the Far East and the northernmost part of Latin America have become more and more frequent. Three years ago, a...