NEWS ON THE WEEK THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
Recalling Nixon in China, 40 Years Late - By John F. Burns, The New York Times
It was a moment in history, of a kind that those of us in the resident foreign press corps knew we would probably not see the likes of again: the morning 40 years ago on Tuesday, when Richard Nixon touched down to be greeted by the Chinese premier, Zhou Enlai, at the airport in what Westerners in those days still called Peking.
Knocking the door open - Nixon's China trip and its legacy - China Daily
Robert Tansey, who was born in New Jersey in the 1950s, has lived a life that probably would have been much different if Nixon hadn't made his historic visit to China on Feb. 21, 1972.
Nixon in China – Stephen Hess, US-China Focus
In a restorative break from an intense Beijing conference last November, I climbed up to the Temple of Heaven and on the wall--not what I expected to find--was a photograph of Richard Nixon, the President of the United States who had surprised the world 40 years before by reconnecting two great nations.
Nixon's China Visit Marked Turning Point in Sino-American Relations - By William Ide, Voice of America
It has been 40 years since former U.S. President Richard Nixon made his historic trip to China. That visit marked the beginning of what experts say has become one of the world's most far-reaching and challenging international relationships.
Nixon goes to China: A Smart Journey Looks Even Smarter. – David Ignatius, Washington Post
After writing last weekend about the sublime flip-flop of Richard Nixon’s trip to China 40 years ago today, I received many comments that make his journey look even smarter than I had thought.
Nixon’s China Opening, 40 Years Later – By Winston Lord and Leslie Gelb, The Daily Beast
Forty years past, world politics were churning with a vicious Vietnam War reaching its crescendo and with the great powers—the United States, the Soviet Union, and China—stumbling toward confrontations, when suddenly, diplomacy repositioned the stars in the international heavens. Most improbably, it seemed, President Nixon journeyed to China to palaver with Mao Zedong, and most central matters on the world stage changed: the opening to China transformed the global playing field, giving Washington new and substantial leverage over both Moscow and Beijing and smothering many of the ill-effects of the Vietnam War becoming a lost cause.
Managing US-China Ties – By Richard H. Solomon, China Daily
Former US president Richard Nixon's week-long visit to China in 1972 concluded with publication of the Shanghai Communique, a unique joint political document that established the principles for normalizing US-China relations.
Grasping a new reality: President stunned the world by visiting long-spurned Communist state – By Jack Torry, Columbus Dispatch
First, they had to get the handshake right. Two decades earlier in Geneva, Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai had been mortally offended when U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spurned his offered hand.