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Winston Lord is an American diplomat and US ambassador to China in the late 1980s. In 1972, he followed then-US president Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, assistant to the US president for ...

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.

Richard Nixon (2nd from right) with Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong (center), Premier Zhou Enlai (left) and Henry Kissinger (right). Getty Images Kissinger met the Chinese leader when he ...

1987 - HOUSTON GRAND OPERA production of "Nixon in China." Stephanie Friedman, as a secretary to Mao Tse-tung, John Duykers as Mao, and James Maddalena as Richard Nixon in a scene from "Nixon in ...

Many Chinese in rural areas had not encountered Americans in their lifetimes at that point. For one 11-year-old American boy, Richard Nixon's trip to China changed almost everything.

“It was announced the President had gone to see Chairman Mao—it was, ‘Well, what press is with him? There’s no press with him?’ I would say the discontent and disappointment in the press corps, ...

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 ...

"The working group persuaded most of us to embrace the task, saying 'You're not serving Nixon but completing the political task commanded by Chairman Mao,'" He recalled.

85-year-old He Zhaofa, receptionist at the Jin Jiang Hotel who served then US President Richard Nixon in 1972 in Shanghai, shared with the Global Times some details of the encounter.

Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong and President Richard Nixon shake hands as they meet in Beijing on Feb. 21, 1972. (AP) ...

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.