I remember where I was when I heard that Deng Xiaoping died, not because I have any particular attachment to Deng Xiaoping, but because I was sitting in my school's lobby discussing Mozambique with a friend (goodness knows why), and someone told us Deng had died, and my friend said to me, "Now you'll always remember that you were discussing Mozambique with Chris McKimm when you heard Deng Xiaoping died."

So now Deng Xiapoing and Mozambique, two entities which have little in common other than both being high-scoring Scrabble words (if they were legal), are inextricably linked in my mind.