The week that changed the world /
Rana Mitter.
- Singapore: BBC Studios, UK Publishing, 2022.
- pp.19-21.
- BBC Earth: Your Productive Brain. No. 03. Vol. 14, .
Following years of icy silence between the US and China, on 21 February 1972 president Richard Nixon arrived in Beijing for an unprecedented diplomatic mission. Rana Mitter explores how the two sides viewed an encounter that augured China's entrance onto the global stage.