While developments in China have largely been driven by internal factors, had President Richard Nixon not made his historic trip, it is entirely possible that the internal changes which transformed ...

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 ...

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 ...

In February 1972, the American president Richard Nixon went to China to meet Mao Zedong. In the context of the war in Vietnam and the cold war, this encounter marked a turning point in Chinese ...

Historian David Reynolds takes a fresh look at the controversial career of Richard Nixon. This intimate psychological ... US trade figures show the trade deficit with China grew at the end of ...

For 22 years, Richard Nixon had campaigned relentlessly ... one must ask: The answer was China. In 1970, Nixon told Time magazine that if there was one thing he wanted to do before he died ...

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

Besides the landing on the moon by the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 Richard Nixons meeting with ... one of the biggest media spectacles in history Nixon himself established the reference between ...

Doug reckons this makes Trump more like Richard Nixon (similarly irascible with questionable ... (As it happens, US rivalry with China over Greenland and its natural resources is the subject ...

Or that it is in the mature Nixon, who made landmark overtures to his onetime foes, the Soviet Union and the country then known as Red China. “I had friends who had refused to work for Richard ...