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 ...

The practice of China lending pandas to other nations began in the 7th century. Here's why this sign of international good ...

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 ...

Richard Nixon served during a troubled time in America ... He engaged communist China, brokered detente with the Soviet Union and pulled American combat troops out of South Vietnam.

Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger saw that South Vietnam ... In April 1972, between Nixon’s historic visits to China and to the Soviet Union, the North Vietnamese made their supreme play and ...

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 ...

The day after the United Nations voted to recognize the People’s Republic of China, then–California Governor Ronald Reagan phoned President Richard Nixon at the White House and vented his ...

One of Richard M. Nixon’s greatest achievements was improving U.S. relations with China and the Soviet Union. With Henry Kissinger, he negotiated Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) in 1972 to ...

Bao Li and Qing Bao, the two giant pandas from China, are 3 years old and arrived in October. After taking a few months to ...

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 ...