Adrian Taylor (producer) He also produced pieces for CNBC, ESPN and Fox News during his career. Clem Taylor spent nearly twenty years with CBS News. He worked as a CBS producer based in Washington D.C., Dallas, and New York City. He was assigned as a producer based in the White House during the Reagan administration during the 1980s. Taylor covered the Reykjavík Summit between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in Iceland in 1986. In the late 1990s, he was named a senior producer of "The Early Show" during the late 1990s. Taylor spent his last four years at CBS News as a producer
1989 Sino-Soviet Summit 1989 Sino-Soviet Summit The four-day Sino-Soviet Summit was held in Beijing from May 15–18, 1989. This would be the first formal meeting between the Soviet Communist leader and the Chinese Communist leader since the Sino-Soviet split in the 1950s. The last Soviet leader to visit China was Nikita Khrushchev in September 1959. Both Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader of China, and Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, proclaimed that the summit was the beginning of normalized state-to-state relations. The meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and then General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC),