A look back on Nixon’s China visit

U.S. President Richard Nixon had a historic trip to China in 1972. Take a look back on the week that changed the world.

China’s role at the UN

President Nixon’s historic trip to China in 1972 came less than a year after the UN passed a resolution recognizing the People’s Republic as: “the only lawful representatives of China to the United Nations”.

Historians say it was China’s growing presence at the UN that helped pave the way for the thawing of relations with the U.S.

The diplomatic rapprochement of the early 1970s also shaped the UN and China’s role in it.

Nixon’s visit to China: 50 years on

50 years ago, U.S. President Richard Nixon visited China to try to find, as he described it, common ground.

Relations between the two countries had been frozen by the Cold War.

The historic meeting with Chinese leader Mao Zedong paved the way for the world’s most important bilateral trade relationship, though in recent years it’s been engulfed by damaging commercial battles.