Jul 29, 2013 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today
If President Nixon’s July 15th, 1971 announcement of his trip to China was a surprise to the USA, it was a shock to Japan. As Minoru Kusuda, then Chief Secretary to Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, said in 1996: “[T]here was a joke circulating among Japanese diplomats that...
Jul 26, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
Modern US-China relations have expanded beyond what any of President Nixon’s contemporaries could have imagined. On March 7, 1972, just a week after President Nixon’s famous trip to China, US National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger told reporters: “On trade, any of...
Jul 17, 2013 | China, News, The New Nixon
During the car ride from the Beijing Airport on February 21, 1972, Premier Zhou Enlai turned to President Nixon and said, “Your handshake came over the vastest ocean in the world—twenty five years of no communication.” Nixon’s week-long trip to China built a bridge...
Jul 15, 2013 | China, Inside The Oval Office, News, The New Nixon
July 15th marks the 42nd anniversary of one of the most jaw-dropping moments of Richard Nixon’s presidency: the announcement of his trip to China. The Nixon administration had been secretly preparing for closer relations with the second-most-powerful Communist nation...
