Nixon's 8-day visit in 1972 set the stage for the normalization of relations between the United States and China. Platt later served as a diplomat in the U.S Embassy in China, where he witnessed first ...

Editorial in Communist Party mouthpiece harks back to ‘ice-breaking’ during the Nixon era, calls shared interests ‘the ...

He told his daughter that he feared being poisoned in China, which was a largely closed country in 1972. Earlier that same year, U.S. President Richard Nixon had made his visit to communist China ...