Retropolis China was a brutal communist menace. In 1972, Richard Nixon visited, anyway. A stunned world watched as the U.S. president met dictator Mao Zedong, whose rule had killed millions of ...

RETRO REPORT: President Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China, an unexpected pivot in U.S. foreign policy, helped end the Cold War. But it left Taiwan’s fate uncertain.

When US President Richard Nixon walked down the red-carpeted stairs from Air Force One to shake hands with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai on a cold day in Beijing on February 21, 1972, it was hailed ...

Richard Nixon's landmark state visit to China in 1972 is still clearly remembered by officials in China who were there. Nixon arrived in Beijing 35 years ago this week in what is considered the ...

President Nixon smiles as he takes in the vistas from the Great Wall near Beijing, during his groundbreaking trip to China in 1972. (Associated Press) Whether or not President Obama has negotiated ...

85-year-old He Zhaofa, receptionist at the Jin Jiang Hotel who served then US President Richard Nixon in 1972 in Shanghai, shared with the Global Times some details of the encounter.

Even now, it is generally thought that Richard Nixon’s visit to China in 1972 was a U.S. diplomatic coup that recast the geopolitical balance to America’s advantage.That certainly was how the ...

PARIS — Even now, it is generally thought that Richard Nixon’s visit to China in 1972 was a U.S. diplomatic coup that recast the geopolitical balance to America’s advantage. That certainly ...

When US President Richard Nixon walked down the red-carpeted stairs from Air Force One to shake hands with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai on a cold day in Beijing on February 21, 1972, it was hailed ...