The first panel features eye-witness panelists discussing how that historic trip was planned and executed. It features three members of President Nixon's immediate Oval Office staff who worked with the President and Chinese leaders to manage the logistics and protocol of the trip and subsequently managed the February 1972 visit. The presentation will include segments from telephone calls made and behind the scenes video taken by participants in the trip. Panelists: Dwight Chapin, Deputy...

The impact of Richard Nixon's trip to Beijing was immediate. In the second hour of the program, scholars from USC and the Nixon Center in Washington will discuss China's place in the world today, examining U.S.-China ties, global issues such as climate change, as well as China's expanding role in the Middle East, and its relations with Asian neighbors. David Kang teaches international relations and business at USC and directs the Korean Studies Institute. Kang is author of China Rising:...

The impact of Richard Nixon's trip to Beijing was immediate. In the second hour of the program, scholars from USC and the Nixon Center in Washington will discuss China's place in the world today, examining U.S.-China ties, global issues such as climate change, as well as China's expanding role in the Middle East, and its relations with Asian neighbors. Geoffrey Kemp directs Regional Strategic Programs at The Nixon Center. Kemp was Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the...

The impact of Richard Nixon's trip to Beijing was immediate. In the second hour of the program, scholars from USC and the Nixon Center in Washington will discuss China's place in the world today, examining U.S.-China ties, global issues such as climate change, as well as China's expanding role in the Middle East, and its relations with Asian neighbors. Daniel Lynch teaches international relations at USC and is currently writing on elite Chinese conceptions of China's future. He's the author...

The impact of Richard Nixon's trip to Beijing was immediate. In the second hour of the program, scholars from USC and the Nixon Center in Washington will discuss China's place in the world today, examining U.S.-China ties, global issues such as climate change, as well as China's expanding role in the Middle East, and its relations with Asian neighbors. Stanley Rosen teaches political science at USC and directs the East Asian Studies Center. He has written on a wide variety of topics from the...

The impact of Richard Nixon's trip to Beijing was immediate. In the second hour of the program, scholars from USC and the Nixon Center in Washington will discuss China's place in the world today, examining U.S.-China ties, global issues such as climate change, as well as China's expanding role in the Middle East, and its relations with Asian neighbors. Paul Saunders is Executive Director of The Nixon Center and publishes its bimonthly foreign policy magazine, The National Interest. He heads...

The impact of Richard Nixon's trip to Beijing was immediate. In the second hour of the program, scholars from USC and the Nixon Center in Washington will discuss China's place in the world today, examining U.S.-China ties, global issues such as climate change, as well as China's expanding role in the Middle East, and its relations with Asian neighbors. Drew Thompson is Starr Senior Fellow at The Nixon Center and heads its China program. He was previously assistant director of the China...

July 15, 1971 President Nixon announced that he'd sent Henry Kissinger to China and that the result of these meetings was an agreement for a presidential trip to China. The announcement finessed the desire by both sides to signal the other initiated the move. The joint announcement begins, "Knowing of President Nixon's expressed desire to visit the People's Republic of China, Premier Chou En-lai, on behalf of the Government of the People's Republic of China, has extended an invitation to...