Trump has sought to decrease diplomatic tensions with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his war with Ukraine, while ...

It's been 50 years since President Nixon went to China, a trip that changed the world's balance of power. The fate of Taiwan was not addressed, and the issue still stalks U.S.-China relations.

From February 24 to March 20, 2026, the Opéra Bastille welcomes Nixon in China, John Adams' opera directed by Valentina ...

When US President Richard Nixon walked down the red-carpeted stairs from Air Force One to shake hands with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai on a cold day in Beijing on February 21, 1972, it was hailed ...

Richard Nixon is hardly a role model, overall; he was a devious president who encouraged illegal actions by his subordinates. But he was a clever strategist — never more so than in the opening ...

Retropolis China was a brutal communist menace. In 1972, Richard Nixon visited, anyway. A stunned world watched as the U.S. president met dictator Mao Zedong, whose rule had killed millions of ...

Last seen locally in this 1990 Los Angeles Music Center production, John Adams’ “Nixon in China” is coming to Long Beach, Vancouver and the Met. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times) By MARK SWED ...

I n the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon made history by drawing Communist China closer to the United States, giving Washington an advantage in its Cold War contest with the Soviet Union. Half ...

The term “old friend” has special significance in China and is one that President Xi Jinping used to describe Kissinger during his latest (and last) visit in July. “Sino-U.S. relations will ...

In October 1987, the Houston Grand Opera took a big gamble when it staged a new, unorthodox opera about President Nixon's famous 1972 trip to China. The three-act production burst into the world ...

When US President Richard Nixon walked down the red-carpeted stairs from Air Force One to shake hands with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai on a cold day in Beijing on February 21, 1972, it was hailed ...