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 ...

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 ...

BEIJING--Official China called Henry Kissinger “an old ... Beijing for unprecedented talks that led to U.S. President Richard Nixon's groundbreaking visit the next year. For that act, he is ...

Jimmy Carter switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing, a move that remains a point of tension, though it moved ...

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 ...

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 ...