Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
Nixon’s visit to China (1972)
On the Mao’s China map as “Nixon in Beijing”
21 Feb 1972 — Hours after landing, Richard Nixon meets Mao in his study for about an hour; Mao, ill, jokes that he “voted for” Nixon. The week of banquets and the Great Wall, broadcast live on American television, turned the enemy of 1950 into a partner against the Soviet Union.
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- Sino-Soviet split and Nixon in China (chapter 11 of Mao’s China)
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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