Retropolis China was a brutal communist menace. In 1972, Richard Nixon visited, anyway. A stunned world watched as the U.S. president met dictator Mao Zedong, whose rule had killed millions of ...

President Richard Nixon meets with Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung in Beijing, during his 1972 visit to China. Corbis/Getty Images Sitting alongside Kissinger aboard the private jet was ...

The handshake between then US president Richard Nixon and chairman Mao Zedonghalf a century ago was hailed at the time as a historic moment. But for Chiang Ching-kuo,Taiwan's then vice-premier and ...

President Nixon meets Chairman Mao Image via Wikipedia "So many deeds cry out to be done, and always urgently. The world rolls on. Time passes. Ten thousand years are too long. Seize the day ...

President Richard Nixon landed in Air Force One at Beijing Airport on Feb. 21, 1972. The daughter of Chairman Mao, Li Ming, saluted that historic milestone by hosting a state dinner on Feb. 21… ...

Richard Nixon was alone in his hotel room in Beijing, uncertain and on edge. He had traveled halfway around the world, and he still didn’t know if he would meet China's leader, Mao Zedong.

Henry Kissinger said Mao Zedong was the "most dangerous" leader he ever met, citing his role in the deaths of 90 million people in China.

The 68 months of Richard Nixon’s presidency were nothing if not surreal. This was the guy who instructed White House public relations staff to push the message that “now is the time to thank ...

In 1972 US President Richard Nixon went on a diplomatic mission to China, which was still under the communist rule of Chairman Mao. He hoped for a meeting with Mao.

Tang: The meeting between Chairman Mao and President Nixon was the highlight of the visit. And the American side had had apprehensions as to when and how it would begin.

The whole irony of Nixon’s Watergate downfall was that in 1972 he was re-elected in the greatest political landslide in presidential history up to that time. Richard M. Nixon was truly an enigma.