USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On February 21, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon arrived in China for an official trip. He was the first U.S. president to visit the People’s Republic of China since it was established in 1949. This was an important event because the U.S. was seeking to improve relations with a Communist country during the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nixon’s 1972 visit to China ushered in a new era of U.S.-China relations and effectively removed China as a Cold War foe. The Nixon administration signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union and organized a conference that led to the signing of the Helsinki Accords after Nixon left office.

Detailed explanation-3: -On the morning of February 21, 1972, US President Richard Nixon landed in the People’s Republic of China. The visit was a visual spectacle for the US President, his entourage, and much of the rest of the world, which closely watched the American leader’s travels inside the world’s largest communist country.

Detailed explanation-4: -A Momentous Occasion: A Look Back at President Carter’s 1979 Decision to Normalize Relations with China. Forty years ago – during the height of the Cold War – former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping looked beyond their nations’ many differences and found common ground.