Video: Watch Mike Chinoy's Assignment: China—"The Week That Changed The World,", an often humorous look at media coverage of Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China. (58 min., 53 sec.) This post ...

Clearly it did so for China, as well. Had Nixon not gone to China, it is hard to imagine how U.S.-China relations would not have been a great deal more unstable than they currently are. The epic 1972 ...

In 1972, then US president Richard Nixon’s historic visit to China signalled a major step forward in relations after decades of isolation for Beijing. Both countries recognised the need to ...