February 21 marked 50 years since U.S. President Richard Nixon visited Beijing and met with Chinese leader Mao Zedong in 1972.
So, I would like to share the contents of the article of the China Net dated February 19, with the title: Lessons of the Mao-Nixon meeting should never be forgotten.
Feb. 21 will mark 50 years since U.S. President Richard Nixon visited Beijing and met with Chinese leader Mao Zedong in 1972.
The moment was historic, particularly because it ended decades of alienation between China and the United States and symbolized a new start for the two countries and a shift from long-standing Cold War antagonism.
Such a moment is seen as the foundation of the U.S.-China bilateral relationship, one which would be defined not by conflict, but co-existence, cooperation, and pragmatism.
It was a moment of hope and progress.
Five decades later, it would be an understatement to say that the world has changed considerably since that famed meeting, and with it, there are risks like never before that the lessons of that historical moment may be lost, or for that matter, deliberately discarded.
In fact, some U.S. politicians have sought to rewrite the legacy of the Mao-Nixon meeting as a fateful mistake.
That shift was best symbolized by Mike Pompeo's speech last July at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, where he sought to self-define a new paradigm in U.S.-China relations summarized by hostility, suspicion, and Cold War confrontation.
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