
Nixon in China
Witness History
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The Chinese Were Seeing Nixon at the Beginning of the Trip
John burns was in roped off enclosure for the local resident foreign press. The chinese controlled exactly where air force one parked on apron at airport. They did it very cleverly, so that the nose of the aircraft came to a halt just at the edge,. visually, of what was called a big tate. A huge signboard painted in red with white chinese characters read 'make trouble fail' This is the nature of all imperialists and capitalists, and cannot go against it.
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