![]() ![]() Nixon had built his entire career on standing up to international communism, whether in the USSR, East Europe, or North Vietnam and China. Dwight Eisenhower had made a state visit - not to Beijing - but to Taiwan, in 1960. Before coming to office, President Herbert Hoover had lived in China as a mining manager, but that was in 1900. Grant did it after leaving the White House, but that was back in 1879. No other president had visited China while in office. China too had to prepare public opinion, inviting an American ping-pong team to a series of games in 1971, which was dubbed “ping-pong diplomacy.” The Vietnam War was still ranging, where thousands of young Americans had died for the “great fight” against international communism. Nixon delivered a televised address on 15 July 1971, telling the American people that he would soon be visiting China. Kissinger’s secret diplomacy went through Pakistan, the only country in the world that enjoyed good relations with the United States, China, and Soviet Union.īefore it happened, however, the stage had to be set and the American public needed to be prepared. It was the first such visit for an American president since the country fell under communist rule in 1949. He had just managed to successfully negotiate what would soon become a game-changer in international politics: President Richard Nixon groundbreaking visit to China, which came at the height of the Cold War. On May 29, Nixon and Brezhnev concluded the conference, with the signing of a joint declaration of long-range plans to avoid a military confrontation and to eventually disarm.This was the one-word cable that US National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger sent to the Nixon White House after secretly visiting China in July 1971. The SALT I treaty, product of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels, while the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty restricted both sides to only two sites for anti-ballistic missiles, with 100 missiles each. On May 26, Nixon and Brezhnev signed two landmark nuclear arms control agreements. On May 24, Nixon and Premier of the Soviet Union Alexei Kosygin signed an agreement paving the way for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. On May 23, Nixon and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Nikolai Podgorny signed the Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Environmental Protection. Later that evening, a banquet was held at the Kremlin. Nixon and Brezhnev engaged in unscheduled talks on that first day. First Lady of the United States Pat Nixon also made the trip. Roosevelt, to visit the Soviet Union), as he and Henry Kissinger arrived to begin a summit meeting with Brezhnev. president to visit Moscow (and only the second president, after Franklin D. The summit followed in the wake of the historic 1972 Nixon visit to China earlier that year, with the Nixon administration soon concluding negotiations for the president to visit the Soviet Union. ![]() The summit is considered one of the hallmarks of the détente at the time between the two Cold War antagonists. It featured the signing of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I), and the U.S.–Soviet Incidents at Sea agreement. Nixon of the United States and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ![]() The Moscow Summit of 1972 was a summit meeting between President Richard M. Nixon and Brezhnev signing the SALT agreement during the summit ![]()
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