Nixon's Visit to China

Nixon went to China in February 1972 live news coverage showed him and Pat Nixon descending the steps of Air Force one With Chinese premier Jew and lie waiting at the bottom. The long-term effects of his visit were in fact transformative Until the moment that Nixon shook Joe's hand the United States had no official Communications with mainland China since 1949. By the time Nixon left the United States and China had started down the path of normalizing their relationship Full diplomatic relations would take another seven years, but the door to trade and other kinds of exchange had cracked open. In Moscow Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed a series of agreements that brought tensions between the two countries To their lowest point