It would take another seven years before official diplomatic relations would be consummated under the Carter administration-where I worked on the China staff of the National Security Council staff at the time-which in turn opened a wide variety of direct ties between our two societies, but the Nixon visit catalyzed the process.
First, it ended the 22-year estrangement and total lack of contact between both the governments and the people of China and the United States. Shambaugh: President Nixon’s visit to China in February 1972 was described at the time as “the week that changed the world.” While perhaps hyperbole, there is indeed truth in this characterization-for three principal reasons. Q: At the time, what was the significance of Nixon’s visit to China? Shambaugh and Sutter were asked questions, some the same and some different, separately for this article.
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Government’s National Intelligence Council, the China division director at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research and professional staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He served as senior specialist and director of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division of the Congressional Research Service, the national intelligence officer for East Asia and the Pacific at the U.S. Robert Sutter, Professor of Practice of International Affairs, had a government career that lasted from 1968 until 2001. Before GW, he was senior lecturer, lecturer and reader in Chinese politics at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, where he also served as editor of The China Quarterly.
Asia-Pacific Council and other public policy and scholarly organizations. He also served on the board of directors of the National Committee on U.S./China Relations and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S.
GW Today sat down with two leading international experts on U.S./China from the Elliott School of International Affairs to discuss the trip to Beijing 50 years later.ĭavid Shambaugh, the Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science and International Affairs and director of the China Policy Program, served the State Department and National Security Council during President Jimmy Carter’s administration. 21-28, 1972-ending two-plus decades of no communication or diplomatic ties between the two nations. President Richard Nixon made one of the most significant foreign visits in the history of the United States 50 years ago when he traveled to the People’s Republic of China Feb. Two Elliott School faculty members who are leading international experts on U.S./China relations offer commentary on the 1972 foreign affairs breakthrough.
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