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Richard Nixon - Mao Zedong
The picture of Richard Nixon, a virulent anti-Communist since his time as a Congressman during the Alger Hiss case, shaking hands with the leader of Communist China was one most never imagined ...
The Washington Post3y
China was a brutal communist menace. In 1972, Richard Nixon visited, anyway.
Chinese dictator Mao Zedong woke up early and got a shave ... a female aide supported Mao by the arm as he stood up to shake Nixon’s hand. The group sat in a semicircle, in armchairs that ...
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KT McFarland says Trump meeting Kim is like Nixon-Mao statecraft, dismisses critics
"In 1972, there was a picture of Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong, who was president of China, and the two of them by shaking that hand, it gave the signal to all the Chinese people that things have ...
Yahoo3y
50 years after Nixon visit, US-China ties as fraught as ever
FILE - Then Chinese communist party leader Mao Zedong, left, and then U.S. President Richard Nixon shake hands as they meet in Beijing on Feb. 21, 1972. At the height of the Cold War, U.S ...
WBUR3y
Grip and grin: When Nixon met Mao
He had traveled halfway around the world, and he still didn’t know if he would meet China's leader, Mao Zedong ... of a fragile-looking Mao shaking Nixon's hand. “Up to that point, China ...
The Economist16y
On shaking hands
WITH this, is the weeklong conservative frenzy over Barack Obama's policy of shaking shifty foreign leaders' hands going to ... people have a problem with Mao and Nixon? And of course, you worked ...
Houston Chronicle18y
Nixon and Mao by Margaret MacMillan
Nixon himself, as he prepared to leave China a few days later, remarked to Mao Zedong that "history has ... Chou, on the other hand, navigated the rough-and-tumble world of Chinese politics ...
Washington Monthly3y
Fifty Years After the Nixon-Mao China Opening, U.S.-Chinese Relations Are Getting Worse
Chinese communist party leader Mao Zedong, left, and U.S. President Richard Nixon shake hands as they meet in Beijing, China on February 21, 1972. (AP Photo) Fifty years ago this month ...
Wall Street Journal14y
Titans Shaking Hands, But Still Worlds Apart
Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong, and produced not so much a drama as a meditation on history and cultural difference.
RealClearPolitics16y
Richard Nixon - Mao Zedong
The picture of Richard Nixon, a virulent anti-Communist since his time as a Congressman during the Alger Hiss case, shaking hands with the leader of Communist China was one most never imagined ...
Tampa Bay Times3y
50 years after Nixon visit, U.S.-China ties as fraught as ever
Chinese communist party leader Mao Zedong, left, and President Richard Nixon shake hands as they meet in Beijing on Feb. 21, 1972. At the height of the Cold War, Nixon flew into communist China's ...