"As you said in your toast, the Chinese people are a great people. The American people are a great people. If our two peoples are enemies, the future of this world we share together is dark indeed. But if we can find common ground to work together, the chance for world peace is immeasurably increased."
I’ve recently taken an interest in President Nixon as a great American and world leader; eloquent and determined to take action as great leaders must! I deeply admire President Nixon’s accomplishments and his incredible positive impact on global happenings in his time; opening the world to China…a truly great man.
Nixon's speech still echos today. The "gulf" of differences between China and the US today is for sure narrower than it was in Nixon's time, but the leaders then had the wisdom and courage to build a bridge to cross that gulf. 47 years later, are we trying to close that bridge and bring in what Nixon called "the doomed future for mankind"?
A superior and laudable statesman .Capable of inestimable empathy and foresight . RMN was a complicated man imbued by dichotomy ; like most great men. Ergo, a man of frailties and attributes ! Sadly his detractors , posthumously less I'd imagine, are myopically fixated on Watergate .
He despised blacks, he started the war on drugs to have an excuse to persecute and jail black persons and other minorities. You can hear his famous white house tapes. He was not empathic with most, I assure you. Specially if you were not white and pro war. Best wishes.
President Nixon great courage and vision set the foundation for Sino American relationship. It's was the turning point for peace and prosperity in Asia. It's very true, we should not send our son and daughter to die in a war that there is no winner but death await them. My respect for both President Nixon and Premier Zhou En Lai for putting aside the differences but worked toward peaceful co existence and non interference. Today we reaped the fruit of that historical day and witnessed the close relationship between President Trump and President Xi. Premier Zhou once said to an American in an interview, the Socialist Chinese mean every word they publicly said and not said one thing and do another thing. The reception that President Trump received is a Chinese hospitality to an old friend.
please if you want to do something serious, seriously do some homework, its Zhou enlai not Chou en-lai. He met with Nixon as the highest rank official of PRC, and the official latin spelling of his family name is Zhou, as pronounced in Mandarin, the official language of PRC, not Chou, as pronounced in Cantonese, a dialect of Chinese Language family. Chou when read in Mandarin, very close to a word literally means stinks. This guy might be deemed as stinking in history book in many ways but, that's not you guys intend to do is it
W Joshua sir you really don't know what you are talking about. Your words are very self-righteous. I have studied the Chinese language for 45 years. How Chinese is romanized into English is based upon several different types of romanization systems. According to the Wade Giles System the man's name is romanized as "Chou." Sometime around 1975 the mainland Chinese system [known as Pin Yin] took root in the West and it is spelled Zhou. This has nothing to do with Cantonese as you seem to suggest. There is also a Yale system. Please educate yourself.
Zenodotus Of Athens The Wade Giles System has been outdated for a long time. The new Hanyu Pinyin system has been the official romanization of Mandarin Chinese for decades now, and is used both in China and in overseas classrooms since it is the accurate transliteration of Chinese in terms of pronounciation. zhouenlai, when typed will become 周恩来。I have rarely heard of people using such an old system.
The English version of his name was officially called such way as early as 1940's or even early just like Mao Tse Tong and Chiang Kai sek. Please learn some history before you make any comments.
Chou En-lai and Zhou Enlai are both mandarin written in different romanizations. It has nothing to do with cantonese. Why don't _you_ do some research before commenting?
@@Jay-zv9on Pinyin is standard in the PRC, it’s not universal. And you do still see the older systems today in historical contexts. this title, I imagine, was just copied from some original heading for the event made at the time or something
