President Richard Nixon and then Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai review Chinese troops at Nixon’s departure from Beijing to Hangchow to continue his China visit, Feb. President Richard Nixon flew into communist China’s center of power for a visit that over time would transform U.S.-China relations and China’s position in the world in ways that were unimaginable at the time. President Richard Nixon, right, is serious-faced as he eats with chopsticks next to then Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in Shanghai on February 28, 1972. President Richard Nixon and then Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai walks past as they tour Hangzhou in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang on Feb. FILE – Framed in the opening of a wall, then U.S.24, 1972 during his tour of historic sites of the Chinese capital. President Richard Nixon shakes hands with a Chinese girl in Beijing on Feb. FILE – Then First lady Pat Nixon watches behind him, then U.S.President Richard Nixon and first lady Pat Nixon enter the palace grounds of Beijing’s Forbidden City as heavy snow falls on Feb. President Richard Nixon stands at The Great Wall of China, which snakes over the mountain behind him, near Beijing on Feb. President Richard Nixon and then first lady Pat Nixon lead the way as they take a tour of China’s famed Great Wall, near Beijing, Feb. Billboards carried slogans such as “Down with American Imperialism,” part of the upheaval under the Cultural Revolution that banished intellectuals and others to the countryside and subjected many to public humiliation and brutal and even deadly attacks in the name of class struggle. Nixon landed in Beijing on a gray winter morning 50 years ago on Monday. But the relationship has never - and will never - be easy.” Now they are mainly in the security realm. “Perhaps 50 years ago the reasons were mainly economic. “The U.S.-China relationship has always been contentious but one of necessity,” said Oriana Skylar Mastro, a China expert at Stanford University. Despite repeated Chinese disavowals, America worries that the democratic-led world that triumphed over the Soviet Union could be challenged by the authoritarian model of a powerful and still-rising China. The Cold War is long over, but on both sides, there are fears a new one could be beginning.
The relationship between China and the United States was always going to be a challenge, and after half a century of ups and downs, is more fraught than ever. President Richard Nixon flew into communist China’s center of power for a visit that, over time, would transform U.S.-China relations and China’s position in the world in ways that were unimaginable at the time. BEIJING (AP) - At the height of the Cold War, U.S.
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