Few individuals in the world can say that they have seen Mao Zedong in person or dined with Deng Xiaoping. But Roger Garside has done both. In 1968, he captured a photograph of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chairman Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square at a time when very few Westerners had access to China, and in 1977, he dined with China’s future paramount leader Deng Xiaoping. In an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times, Garside—a British former diplomat and author of the newly published book “China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom”—looked back on his more than six decades of following events in China, and looked forward to what he predicts will be momentous change there, including potential political change and a transition to democracy. He described in detail the senseless violence that he and other diplomats witnessed in China in the late 1960s during the turbulent Cultural Revolution, telling …