Experts Reflect on Importance of Nixon's Visit to China

NEW YORK, January 31, 2012 — Ambassador Nicholas Platt (who accompanied Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China), veteran journalists Max Frankel and Mike Chinoy, and Asia Society's Orville Schell discuss China then and now and and the importance of Nixon's diplomatic breakthrough. (6 min., 21 sec.)

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