USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The US foreign policy during the presidency of Richard Nixon (1969–1974) focused on reducing the dangers of the Cold War among the Soviet Union and China. President Richard Nixon’s policy sought on détente with both nations, which were hostile to the U.S. and to each other.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nixon and his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger came to believe that by thawing relations with the Chinese and bringing them into the “society of nations, ” America could gain a powerful new ally in its negotiations with both the North Vietnamese and the Soviets.

Detailed explanation-3: -Basically, Nixon played China and the Soviet Union off of each other. By improving relations with China, Nixon felt he could drive a wedge in between China and the Soviet Union (the two most powerful communist nations in the world) and therefore improve the United States’s relationship with both of them.

Detailed explanation-4: -Why did the relationship between China and the United States begin to change during the Nixon administration?-The US saw capitalist changes in China.-The US feared China as a political rival in Asia.