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 ...

Held before a standing-room-only crowd, the talk followed a showing of the new documentary Assignment: China—"The Week That Changed The World" and also featured former Asia Society President Nicholas ...

Perhaps, though, Donald Trump can find a replacement—with Iran. In his first term he ditched the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a nuclear deal signed in 2015, and promised to negotiate a ...

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 ...

Besides the landing on the moon by the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 Richard Nixons meeting with Chinas leader Mao Zedong in February 1972 then represented one of the biggest media spectacles in ...

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.

They're part of a conservation program and a historic partnership between the U.S. and China that goes back half a century. In 1972, President Richard Nixon and first lady Pat Nixon made a ...

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 ...