Nixon Becomes the First US President to Visit China
Great Hall of the People, Beijing, China
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China
CONFIRMÉCONFIANCE 82 %The Office of the Historian states that "Nixon travelled to Communist China February 21–28, 1972, becoming the first U.S. President to visit mainland China while in office", and the Shanghai Communiqué itself records the visit as running "from February 21 to February 28, 1972".[1]
Richard Nixon spent 21 to 28 February 1972 in Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai, meeting Mao Zedong on the day he arrived. No sitting US president had set foot in the People's Republic, and the two governments had had no diplomatic relations for 23 years.
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