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The Joint Communiqué of the United States of America and the People's Republic of China, also known as the Shanghai Communiqué (1972), was a diplomatic document issued by the United States of America and the People's Republic of China on February 27, 1972, on the last evening of President Richard Nixon's visit to China.
[1] [2] Kissinger, considered one of the most famous diplomats of the 20th century, [3] played an integral role in developing the relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China during the Nixon administration, which culminated in Nixon's 1972 visit to China. [4] Kissinger's book focuses on Chinese history through the ...
She joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in November 1965. From July 1971 to May 1972, she served as Deputy Director General of the Protocol Department and participated in the reception of Henry Kissinger in his secret visit to China and in the reception of Richard Nixon in his subsequent visit to China.
January 26 – Li Ming, Chinese footballer and football executive; October 29 – Ma Huateng, Chinese business magnate, founder of TenCent; November 12 – Chen Guangcheng, Chinese civil rights activist
Amid the Sino-Soviet split and Vietnam War, United States President Richard Nixon entered into negotiations with Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong, initially through a secret 1971 trip undertaken by Henry Kissinger to visit Zhou Enlai. On 25 October 1971, a motion to recognize the People's Republic of China as the sole legal China ...
Nixon's visit played a role in opening China to U.S. trade eventually putting downward pressure on U.S. inflation. [36] As prospects of China-U.S. rapprochement improved following the visit, China's focus on its Third Front campaign to develop basic and heavy industry in its rugged interior gradually declined.
Henry Alfred Kissinger [a] (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 56th United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and the 7th national security advisor from 1969 to 1975, serving in both the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
[2]: 307 In early 1972, Zhou told White House press secretary Ron Ziegler (who was in China preparing for President Richard Nixon's visit) that the Chinese team could visit that spring. [ 2 ] : 307 In February of 1972, Nixon visited the People's Republic, the first time in history that an American president had traveled to the Chinese mainland.