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Seize the hour : when Nixon met Mao / Margaret MacMillan.
By: MacMillan, Margaret [author.]
.Publisher: London : John Murray, 2007Description: xiii, 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps.Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780719565236.Subject(s): Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 | Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 | Visits of state -- China | United States -- Foreign relations -- China | China -- Foreign relations -- United States | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1969-1974 | China -- Foreign relations -- 1949-1976DDC classification: 327.73051 Summary: In 1972 Nixon amazed the world by going to China. The first trip ever by a US President marked the end of deep freeze in Sino-American relations. Was Nixon the supplicant to the Middle Kingdom? Has the US been at a disadvantage ever since? Will the 21st century see co-operation or China challenging American dominance?
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 327.73051 MAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Issued | 27/03/2024 | 012326 |
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| 327.730477 PIF The eagle and the trident : | 327.73051 BRA Winning the Third World : Sino-American rivalry during the Cold War / | 327.73051 GRI Ping-pong diplomacy : Ivor Montagu and the astonishing story behind the game that changed the world / | 327.73051 MAC Seize the hour : | 327.730538 UNG House of Bush, house of Saud : the secret relationship between the world's two most powerful dynasties / | 327.7305492 PIL The West and the birth of Bangladesh : foreign policy in the face of mass atrocity / | 327.73055 PAR Losing an enemy : |
Originally published: 2006.
In 1972 Nixon amazed the world by going to China. The first trip ever by a US President marked the end of deep freeze in Sino-American relations. Was Nixon the supplicant to the Middle Kingdom? Has the US been at a disadvantage ever since? Will the 21st century see co-operation or China challenging American dominance?