President Richard Nixon’s trip to China in 1972 was “the week that changed the world,” according to Ambassador Nicholas Platt, who accompanied the President on the historic delegation, at an event ...
“He helped Nixon open China’s door and promoted a thaw in China-U.S. relations.” The willingness to overlook differences took on renewed importance in recent years as U.S.-China relations ...
On 15 July 1971, onetime arch-Cold Warrior Richard Nixon went on television to make the stunning announcement that he would visit the People’s Republic of China, at the time the United States’ ...
"Trump in Tehran!" This is the name of an operetta imagined by some American advocates of Realpolitik calling themselves Council on Foreign Relations rather than the sobriquet that G.K. Chesterton ...
as remarkable and unexpected as the achievements of Nixon and Carter decades ago. The author is a US scholar and senior fellow at the Center for China and Globalization.
A rapprochement with the People’s Republic of China began during the presidency of Richard Nixon, who made an ice-breaking visit to Beijing in 1972. But it was Carter who oversaw Washington’s ...
Vancouver Opera’s critically acclaimed production of John Adams’ Nixon in China has wings. Two American companies—San Francisco Opera and the Lyric Opera of Kansas City—will be presenting ...