{"id":9020,"date":"1971-07-15T12:19:10","date_gmt":"1971-07-15T12:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.dialectzone.org\/?p=9020"},"modified":"1971-07-15T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"1971-07-15T12:19:10","slug":"nixon-announces-a-visit-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/nixon-announces-a-visit-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Nixon Announces A Visit To China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise announcement, President Richard Nixon says that he will visit Beijing, China, before May 1972. The news, issued simultaneously in Beijing and the United States, stunned the world. Nixon reported that he was visiting in order \u201cto seek normalization of relations between the two countries and to exchange views on questions of concern to both sides.\u201d Privately, Nixon hoped that achieving a rapprochement with China, North Vietnam\u2019s major benefactor, would convince Hanoi to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the Vietnam War. The announcement was preceded by an April 6 invitation for the U.S. Table Tennis team to visit China, and by Nixon\u2019s end to the 20-year U.S. trade embargo against China. On July 22, the North Vietnamese announced that they viewed Nixon\u2019s visit to China as a divisive attempt by the United States to drive a wedge between Hanoi and Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise announcement, President Richard Nixon says that he will visit Beijing, China, before May 1972. The news, issued simultaneously in Beijing and the United States, stunned the world. Nixon reported that he was visiting in order \u201cto seek normalization of relations between the two countries and to exchange views on questions of concern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vietnam-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}