Today in history
Subtitle: February 21
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: Foreign relations
Other titles: February 21; Nixon in China
Description: Discusses President Richard Nixon's official visit to China on February 21, 1972; his intention of establishing political, economic, and cultural contacts between the two nations; and a permanent U.S. trade mission in China. Also provides historical information on the U.S. Open Door Policy in the beginning of 1900 as well as the influxes of Chinese laborers to the U.S. in the mid-1800s to build railroad and to work in the gold fields.
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