FILE - In this Feb. 21, 1972, file photo, Ji Chaozhu, right, stands near then Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, center, greeting then U.S. President Richard Nixon at Beijing Airport in Beijing. Ji, a veteran Chinese diplomat who provided English translation for leaders from Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping and served as an undersecretary of the United Nations, has died on April 29 in Beijing, the foreign ministry said late Wednesday, May 6, 2020. He was 90. (AP Photo, File)