On Feb. 21, 1972, as then U.S. President Richard Nixon deplaned from Air Force One at Beijing's airport, he extended his hand toward then Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai. This handshake "across the Pacific Ocean" symbolized the thawing of relations between the capitalist superpower and the most ...
SHAO YUQUN Senior Fellow, Center for American Studies Shanghai Institutes for International Studies "This specific picture shows Premier Zhou Enlai and President Nixon cheered at the dinner in the Jinjiang Auditorium in February 1972. Many people have asked why Shanghai was chosen as the place to ...
In 1972, the US president Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat. made a historic visit to China. On her second day in the country, Pat went to the Beijing Zoo to see pandas. At a dinner before they left China, Premier Zhou Enlai told Pat that Chin a would present the US with two pandas...
Geneva Convention to negotiate new political boundaries between North and South Korea, and North and South Vietnam. At the conference, John Foster Dulles, then secretary of state underDwight D. Eisenhower, had famously refused to shake hands with Zhou Enlai, the Chinese premier and lead ...
OnFeb.22,1972,ZhouandNixonheldtalksattheGreatHallofthePeopleonthenormalizationoftheSino-USrelationsandotherissuesofcommonconcern.TheNixonswithSecretaryofStateWilliamRogersattheGreatWall.ZhouEnlaiandNixonspeakingatabanquet NixonandChouEn-Laiatabanquet TheNixonssharealaughwithChouEn-lai.1.Attendingaspecial...
On Feb. 21, 1972, Nixon arrived in Beijing after months of negotiations and planning between the two sides. Exiting Air Force One and arriving at the bottom steps of the ramp, Nixon strode forward and eagerly extended his hand to then-Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai. ...
Accompanied by Premier Zhou Enlai, Nixon visited Shanghai Industrial Exhibition which was regarded as the city's production "window," displaying the most advanced machines and latest inventions of the time. A punch displayed at the en...
“we came in peace for all mankind”, President Nixon visited China, a trip he considered as sacred and lofty as the moon landing of mankind. The week would be remembered in history, as the handshake between Premier Zhou...
File: Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai (R) and U.S. President Richard Nixon shake hands at an airport in Beijing, China, February 21, 1972. /Xinhua Editor's note:Sun Chenghao is a research fellow at Center for Interna...