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The visit inspired John Adams' 1987 opera Nixon in China. It was also the subject of a PBS documentary film, American Experience: Nixon's China Game. Nixon's visit played a role in leading to the September 1972 Japan–China Joint Communiqué.
The phrase "Nixon goes to China", "Nixon to China", or "Nixon in China" [1] is a historical reference to U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China, where he met with Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong. Its basic import is that Nixon's well-established reputation as an anti-Communist "hawk" gave him ...
The Joint Communiqué of the United States of America and the People's Republic of China, also known as the Shanghai Communiqué (1972), was a diplomatic document issued by the United States of America and the People's Republic of China on February 27, 1972, on the last evening of President Richard Nixon's visit to China. [1] [2] [3]
Nixon's 1972 visit to China ushered in a new era of U.S.-China relations and effectively removed China as a Cold War foe. The Nixon administration signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union and organized a conference that led to the signing of the Helsinki Accords after Nixon left office.
In February 1976, Nixon visited China at the personal invitation of Mao. Nixon had wanted to return to China but chose to wait until after Ford's own visit in 1975. [284] Nixon remained neutral in the close 1976 primary battle between Ford and Reagan. Ford won, but was defeated by Georgia governor Jimmy Carter in the general election.
Nixon shakes hands with Mayor of Chicago Richard Daley, 6 February 1970. February 6 – United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development George Romney says President Nixon's visit to the Midwest was successful in creating a bond between his administration and officials on a state and local level. [36]
January 11 – President Nixon signs an executive order alongside issuing a memoranda setting ordering pay increases to over 118,000 federal blue collar workers. [4] January 13 – President Nixon announces the withdrawal of 70,000 American troops over the course of the next three months in a statement during the White House press briefing. [5]
President and Mrs. Nixon visit the Great Wall of China and the Ming tombs, 24 February 1972. On China is a 2011 non-fiction book by Henry Kissinger, former National Security Adviser and United States Secretary of State.