Exactly 52 years ago today, on the morning of February 28, 1972, then-President Richard Nixon and his team, including his wife Pat and his assistant, Dr Henry Kissinger, left Shanghai to head home, having completed what the President called “the week that changed the world.”
And that it did, for it was from right here in Shanghai that China and the United States jointly issued the Shanghai Communiqué, a groundbreaking document that heralded the beginning of the long road toward official relations between the two nations.
Come with me as we discover the story behind that groundbreaking document, details about Nixon's week in China, and we'll even chat with an 82-year-old Shanghai woman who was a young employee of the Foreign Affairs Office at the time and worked for months preparing for the visit.
I'm Andy Boreham, and this is a special edition of Reports on China.
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27 фев 2024
