Mao Zedong’s chaotic, bloody purge that killed more than two million people in revolutionary episodes of “unfathomable brutality.” Yet, President Richard Nixon was determined to improve ...

President Richard Nixon’s unexpected trip to China in 1972 ... Despite his strong anti-communist stance, Nixon’s handshake with Mao Zedong symbolized an unlikely alliance calibrated to offset ...

Henry Kissinger said Mao Zedong was the "most dangerous" leader ... leader when he served as a national security advisor to Richard Nixon in 1972, at a time of easing tensions between the US ...

From Feb. 21 to 28, 1972, then U.S. President Richard Nixon visited China, the first leader ever to visit from a country that had not yet established diplomatic relations with China. Mao Zedong ...

The unspoken premise of the rationale is that the China engagement policy launched by Richard Nixon and ... Of course, Nixon did not create Mao Zedong, the greatest mass murderer in history ...

Former U.S. President Richard Nixon famously reconciled with China's Communist leader Mao Zedong in a process that shut out ...

Fifty years ago, on Aug. 9, 1974, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency ... War and normalizing relations with Chair Mao Zedong of China. At Nixon’s funeral in 1994, then-President Bill Clinton ...

Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung (also known as Chairman Mao) was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China. His Marxist–Leninist theories ...

Half a century ago, Richard Nixon sought to split China ... These initial discussions would pave the way for Nixon’s 1972 summit with Mao and China’s communist leadership.