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I was curious and checked Wikipedia, this is going to sound like a joke but he was on assignment studying corn in Iowa in 1985. I'm assuming he just visited SF on the way there or back.
No yeah he famously has a host family in Iowa he loosely stays in contact with
it'd be pretty funny if the PRC opened a consulate in Muscatine
Khrushchev never died, he just became Chinese
No, that makes perfect sense! 1980s china is a booming population just a few decades from the great leap forward.
I was thinking maybe he was in SF for the booming high tech economy. But apparently he was in the us to study a more important part of the economy!