Sino-US engagement was never ‘normal,’ but it wasn’t a failure either
Nixon’s detente with Beijing 50 years ago, despite lurches between optimism and hostility over the decades, is not unredeemable.
Nixon’s detente with Beijing 50 years ago, despite lurches between optimism and hostility over the decades, is not unredeemable.
Video: The young foreign service officer was the interpreter for the president on that trip 50 years ago, and had a front row seat to history.