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Episode 77: RICHARD NIXON 1972 The Foundation of Peace (Special 50th Anniversary Edition) Discovering Zhou En Lai
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To mark the actual 50th anniversary of the start of the week that changed the world. The week Richard Nixon landed in Peking , China and reestablished a relationship with Mainland China. We thought it appropriate to look to the other man who made this trip and the events within that week such a dramatic success. He was the man on the other side of the field, a man often in the shadow of Mao in the story of opening relations with China. The books and attention is often on Nixon and Mao, but the man who made it all work was Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai.
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