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4 days ago · Feb 21-28, 1972, US President Richard Nixon made a seven-day trip to China, which was called "the week that changed the world". Winston Lord, who was a member of Nixon's group and witnessed the visit to China, recounted the ice-breaking trip in an interview with China Daily. Photo. Exploring Yiwu: The global hub of small commodities.
4 days ago · How plowshare diplomacy won the day. Charles Freeman, chief US interpreter during Nixon's 1972 visit to China. CHINA DAILY. Charles Freeman watched through the window of Air Force One when president Richard Nixon walked down the air stairs extending his hand to Chinese premier Zhou Enlai on Feb 21, 1972. Best known in China today as the chief ...
2 days ago · The normalization concluded a long process that began with the secret visit to Beijing in 1971 by then US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, a trip that led to the historic 1972 visit to China by then president Richard Nixon.
5 days ago · 1. Richard Nixon - first US president to visit the Chinese mainland. Dates: Feb 21-28, 1972. Places: Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai. Richard Nixon's groundbreaking visit was the first top-level ...
5 days ago · Richard Nixon - China, Vietnam, Watergate: Aiming to achieve “peace with honor” in the Vietnam War, Nixon gradually reduced the number of U.S. military personnel in Vietnam. Under his policy of “Vietnamization,” combat roles were transferred to South Vietnamese troops, who nevertheless remained heavily dependent on American supplies and air support. At the same time, however, Nixon ...
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1 day ago · United States President Richard Nixon decided to use the conflict to shift the balance of power towards the West in the Cold War through a policy of rapproachment with China, which began with his 1972 visit to China and culminated in 1979 with the signing of the Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations by President Carter and Chinese President Deng Xiaoping.
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5 days ago · Richard Nixon (born January 9, 1913, Yorba Linda, California, U.S.—died April 22, 1994, New York, New York) was the 37th president of the United States (1969–74), who, faced with almost certain impeachment for his role in the Watergate scandal, became the first American president to resign from office. He was also vice president (1953–61 ...
