Interesting Times: China, America, and the Shifting Balan...
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The decision that President Richard Nixon took in 1972 to bring to an end Washington's 23-year-long attempt to isolate and overthrow the Peoples' Republic of China (PRC) changed the global political balance in deep and lasting ways. When Nixon held his meetings with Chairman Mao in Beijing in February 1972, at his side was a young U.S. diplomat who was serving as his principal interpreter: Chas W. Freeman, Jr. Throughout and following his dist...