The Long March from Shanghai
Forty years ago, US President Richard M. Nixon journeyed to China, and the "Shanghai Communiqué" launched what has become the world's most important and complex bilateral relationship. Today, however, China is increasingly consumed by mistrust of the US – evident in its veto in February of the UN Security Council's resolution on Syria.
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SHANGHAI – Forty years ago, in February 1972, US President Richard M. Nixon journeyed to China. On the seventh day of “the week that changed the world,” as Nixon called it, he and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai signed the “Shanghai Communiqué,” which began the normalization of bilateral relations and bound the United States, a principal supporter of Taiwan, to the People’s Republic’s doctrine of “One China.”