Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Today in History

All the Modern World History students out there, you probably remember how the US did not want to recognize the Chinese communist government formed in 1949. Relations had been bad for years.

However, this day in 1971, US President Richard Nixon announced he would visit the People's Republic of China to seek a 'normalization of relations' - this was to be the start of a thaw in Sino-US relaions.

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