Exactly 52 years ago today, on the morning of February 28, 1972, then-President Richard Nixon and his team, including his wife Pat and his assistant, Dr Henry Kissinger, left Shanghai to head home, having completed what the President called “the week that changed the world.” And that it did, for it was from right here in Shanghai that China and the United States jointly issued the Shanghai Communiqué, a groundbreaking document that heralded the beginning of the long road toward official relations between the two nations. Ping Pong Diplomacy It all started in 1971, when American ping-pong athlete Glenn Cowan …read more
Source:: SL Guardian English