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 ...

Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard ...

Perhaps, though, Donald Trump can find a replacement—with Iran. In his first term he ditched the Joint Comprehensive Plan of ...

In 1972, then US president Richard Nixon’s historic visit to China signalled a major step forward in relations after decades of isolation for Beijing. Both countries recognised the need to ...

“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 ...

IN washington the “Nixon to China" tagline has lost its attraction. Both parties are too hostile towards the People’s Republic for a miraculous reconciliation to be possible. Perhaps ...

It was the impeccable arrangement of ping pong balls in a window display, and the neatly pinned sales slips on a drying line, that Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Max Frankel noticed during his ...

In both the Nixon and Trump cases, the efforts of Canadian prime ministers – then Pierre Trudeau, now Justin Trudeau – to win ...

Experts say the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act is untested for imposing import tariffs and Trump's action ...

In 1970, Nixon told Time magazine that if there was one thing he wanted to do before he died, it was to visit China. It was a golden opportunity for the Americans — one that could pressure the ...

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.