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Nixon’s visit to China (1972)
On the Cold War map as “Nixon in China”
21–28 Feb 1972 — The arch anti-communist toasts Mao in Beijing and signs the Shanghai Communiqué. The triangle is complete: each communist power now fears the other more than the West.
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- Détente and Nixon in China (chapter 9 of Cold War)
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- The Cold War, 1945–1991
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- Mao’s China
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