How Did Richard Nixon Visit To China
Nixon’s Visit to China and its Implications for American Foreign Policy President Richard Nixon’s visit to the People’s Republic of China from February 21st to the 28th of 1972 was a monumental shift in United States foreign policy towards China. However, the change did not just alter American foreign policy towards China. The announcement of Nixon’s visit to China sent shockwaves across the globe. The change in American foreign policy following Nixon’s visit to China in particular affected many of America’s Cold War allies. Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and its NATO allies in Canada and Western Europe all responded to Nixon’s visit to China in different ways. While some of America’s allies met the announcement of détente with fear, others
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In the decades to follow, Americans would look upon China and the Soviet Union as a two-headed communist monster that covered a large portion of the world’s largest continent. That monster, as Americans saw it, was seeking to spread communism to the rest of Asia, including the Korean peninsula and Southeast Asia. Perhaps nothing confirmed Communist China as an enemy of the United States more than when its forces intervened on behalf of the North Koreans during the Korean War. United Nations forces, led by the United States, almost had the war won when Chinese forces crossed the border into North Korea and drove the Allies back across the 38th parallel, eventually forcing an armistice. The Chinese intervention in the Korean War justified Americans view as China as an enemy of the United States When Nixon announced his visit to China on July 15th, 1971, it was not completely out of the blue or unexpected, even if some of America’s allies at the time acted like it was. In fact, the announcement, and the trip itself, was a long time coming. China was not the Soviet Union’s best friend the way Americans believed they were. In fact the two had been having issues for quite some time. Disagreements on communist ideology led to a separation, and even a rivalry, between the two communist countries. This Rivalry is now referred to as the Sino-Soviet
In the decades to follow, Americans would look upon China and the Soviet Union as a two-headed communist monster that covered a large portion of the world’s largest continent. That monster, as Americans saw it, was seeking to spread communism to the rest of Asia, including the Korean peninsula and Southeast Asia. Perhaps nothing confirmed Communist China as an enemy of the United States more than when its forces intervened on behalf of the North Koreans during the Korean War. United Nations forces, led by the United States, almost had the war won when Chinese forces crossed the border into North Korea and drove the Allies back across the 38th parallel, eventually forcing an armistice. The Chinese intervention in the Korean War justified Americans view as China as an enemy of the United States When Nixon announced his visit to China on July 15th, 1971, it was not completely out of the blue or unexpected, even if some of America’s allies at the time acted like it was. In fact, the announcement, and the trip itself, was a long time coming. China was not the Soviet Union’s best friend the way Americans believed they were. In fact the two had been having issues for quite some time. Disagreements on communist ideology led to a separation, and even a rivalry, between the two communist countries. This Rivalry is now referred to as the Sino-Soviet