Richard Nixon Remarks To The People's Republic Of China Analysis

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At 7:31 p.m. July 15, 1971, 2 years after President Richard Nixon was re-elected as President of the United States of America, he made remarks that were broadcast on television and radio that would change the history of the Sino-American relationship. In the “Remarks to the Nation Announcing Acceptance of an Invitation To Visit the People's Republic of China”, Nixon announced that he would accept the invitation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to visit before May 1972. Nixon claimed that this action sought to normalize the relationship with the PRC, and would allow the leaders of the both nations to discuss common interests. However, Nixon emphasized that the tour was not ‘directed against any other nation.’ This, of course, was to comfort two other major stakeholders against the new relationship, the pro-western faction China – the Republic of China (ROC) and PRC’s communist ally USSR. The other point that Nixon emphasized was the concept of peace, he suggested the efforts to rebuild trust and good relations with PRC were an effort to ‘build a lasting peace’ in the world. Prior to the announcement, Nixon sent Dr. Henry Kissinger to Peking to talk with Premier Chou En-Lai.
As mentioned, the ROC and the USSR were perturbed by Nixon’s visit. After the Nationalist Party lost their war against the Communist Party, the ROC moved to Taiwan and remained the official representative of China in the UN, and to most of the western powers. The normalization of the Sino-American relationship indicates the ROC lost their official position as “China” in the global arena. The USSR, the Communist ally of the PRC, had a close relationship with the PRC when it was formed. However, after the USSR implemented the hostile policies such as Brezhnev Doctrine and the Encirclement approach against China, their relationship with China became more

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