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Trump-Xi summit will be no ‘Nixon in China’ moment – that they are talking is enough for now
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An analysis article comparing a potential Trump-Xi summit to historic US-China diplomatic breakthroughs, arguing that mere communication between the leaders represents a modest positive even if the meeting lacks the transformative significance of Nixon's 1972 China visit.
Trump-Xi summit will be no ‘Nixon in China’ moment – that they are talking is enough for now
Xi and Trump: A plastic friendship at best? Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images
Meetings between Chinese and American leaders are not exactly routine, but few are historically groundbreaking.
The exceptions include the very first visit by a sitting U.S. president to China, when Richard Nixon met with Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing in February 1972 – at a time when America did not even formally recognize the People’s Republic of China. Deng Xiaoping’s visit to the U.S. in 1979 generated a similarl
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