The idea of building relationships is anything but thoughtless, anything but a leap of faith Mao's communist China was in the head of Richard Nixon for some time, even dating back to the year before the 1968 election campaign. In fact, he had written about it in Foreign Affairs in October 1967.
As soon as the Republican president was in the saddle, he worked fully in this direction. Of course, the decision to vote against it, but not, is indescribably important among the many measures and initiatives Veto the UN resolution which admitted China to the Assembly and at the same time admitted it to the Security Council in place of Taiwan.
It was the year 1971 that was highlighted in this context by the trumpet visit of the American table tennis team to the Asian country (the so-called “Ping pong diplomacy“) and above all by Henry Kissinger's secret mission to these gangs between July 9th and 11th, a mission in preparation for the subsequent historic visit announced by the US President on July 15th.
So it is between February 21st and 28th, 1972 The United States of America and Maoist China actually meet by overcoming ideal barriers, ideological, political and social issues of great importance. The aim was to build a climate of trust and we will continue to work in this direction.
Mauro della Porta Raffo
Honorary President of the Italy USA Foundation
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