After 50 years, bilateral trade between China and the US had reached $755.6 billion, and the two economies have become deeply integrated, with thousands of flights arriving and departing in the two countries prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. That's very short but to the point.Įven after many years, we are still stunned at the courage the leaders of these two countries had to overcome all hostilities, differences, disputes, disagreements. Nixon himself summed his goals of this visit with simple sentences: We are here for American interests our common interests have brought us here. There is no need to read history books to interpret how the visit has been viewed. The visit was seen as being successful, culminating in the first joint communique between the People's Republic of China and the United States. On top of that, in front of cameras, with smile, Nixon helped Zhou take off his coat, and enjoyed a sample of Chinese baijiu Moutai. American citizens witnessed President Nixon entering Chairman Mao's library and visiting the Great Wall of China.
Both sides publicly expressed their differences, disputes, and disagreements.Īt that time, television has entered its golden age in the US. Across China, posts of "Down with the American Imperialists" were visible. The two countries had no official diplomatic relations yet. The president of the world's top capitalist country paid an historic visit to a communist country, with which Western countries had fought in bloody battles for years.
Younger Western generations in politics or diplomacy might be surprised by the whole process of this visit. During the visit, Nixon and Chinese leaders Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai had "changed the world" forever by signing the first joint communique between China and the US. The world with wide-opened eyes was following the visit of then US President Richard Nixon to China. An exhibition on US President Richard Nixon's visit to China Photo: cnsphotoAcross the world, people in their fifties or older must have indelible memories of that shocking and historic week - February 22-28, 1972.
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