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 ...
"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.
Jimmy Carter switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing, a move that remains a point of tension, though it moved China away from the Soviet Union.
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 ...