A week, Harold Wilson once said, is a long time in politics. How about a year then, in international politics?
The quote from the former British prime minister came to me recently when I was reading through US Vice-President Mike Pence's most recent speech on China, delivered at the Wilson Centre - named not for the British leader but after the US president who held power during World War I.
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