Because suddenly the U.S. and China have a lot more to talk about than just trade and Taiwan — and who’s the undisputed ...

Modern thinkers widely misunderstand the contemporaneous significance of Nixon’s 1972 trip to China. That significance provides a blueprint for thawing the current tensions. Trump didn't blunder ...

There were a lot of raised eyebrows and quiet chuckles this month when President-elect Donald Trump invited President Xi ...

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 ...

Back in the previous century, it used to be said that "only Nixon could go to China." In other words, only a longtime cold warrior and red-baiter like President Richard Nixon had the necessary ...

Could Donald Trump end the Afghan war someday? I don't know if such a possibility has been on your mind, but it's certainly been on the mind of this retired US Army major who fought in that land ...

BEIJING--At the height of the Cold War, U.S. President Richard Nixon flew into communist China’s center of power for a visit that, over time, would transform U.S.-China relations and China’s ...

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 ...

Thus it was that Nixon went to China and changed the Cold War forever. If only Nixon could have seen the giveaways future administrations would offer to China. He was wary of the Chinese and ...

Hence the arch-anti-Communist Nixon went to China to negotiate with Mao Tse-Tung and went to Russia to personally negotiate the first strategic-arms-limitation treaty. Nixon learned by studying ...