#8 – 10 Things you (probably) didn’t know about China at the Treaty of Versailles

#8 – Wellington Koo was a champion university debater while his adversary, Baron Makino was a master Go player….Betrayal in Paris now on Amazon UK and Amazon US….

Japan’s lead negotiator in Paris was Baron Makino, reputedly a master of go, an ancient Chinese game of strategy. Koo, China’s lead negotiator, had studied abroad, at Columbia in New York, where he had been an outstanding student and a key member of the university debating team.