{"id":41854,"date":"2022-02-21T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T01:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/21\/fifty-years-on-nixon-in-china-loses-its-sparkle-in-beijing-and-washington"},"modified":"2022-02-21T10:55:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T01:55:14","slug":"fifty-years-on-nixon-in-china-loses-its-sparkle-in-beijing-and-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41854","title":{"rendered":"Fifty years on, \u2018Nixon in China\u2019 loses its sparkle in Beijing and Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trip was hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough at the time but now critics in the US question its wisdom<\/p>\n<p>On a brisk winter day in February 1972, the 34-year-old American diplomat, Winston Lord, arrived in Beijing with his boss, Henry Kissinger, and president Richard Nixon. Barely an hour after they checked in to their guest house, a message came: \u201cChairman Mao wants to see president Nixon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The urgency from Mao resonated with the excitement from the American delegation. The establishment of bilateral relations offered great opportunities for both sides in facing a common enemy: the Soviet Union. For more than two decades since the Chinese communists took over the mainland, Beijing and Washington had had no official contact on this scale.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/21\/fifty-years-on-nixon-in-china-loses-its-sparkle-in-beijing-and-washington\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trip was hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough at the time but now critics in the US question its wisdomOn a brisk winter day in February 1972, the 34-year-old American diplomat, Winston Lord, arrived in Beijing with his boss, Henry Kissinger, and pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,695,2545,74,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-mao-zedong","category-richard-nixon","category-taiwan","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41855,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41854\/revisions\/41855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}