On Saturday the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be John Adams' "Nixon in China." The performance begins at noon at the AMC Town Plaza 5 in Cape Girardeau. This opera ...

In the early 1970s, China was supplying significant military, financial, and logistical assistance to North Vietnam in its war against the United States. China was helping North Vietnamese troops kill ...

The news of President Nixon's trip to China is public, and he's getting credit for pulling off such a historic event. Now, he and his advisers... Grip and grin: When Nixon met Mao This is Part III of ...

In 1972, President Richard Nixon made the historic journey to meet Chinese leader Mao Zedong in part paved by a U.S. pingpong delegation that traveled to Beijing a year earlier. The U.S. and China had ...

RETRO REPORT: President Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China, an unexpected pivot in U.S. foreign policy, helped end the Cold War. But it left Taiwan’s fate uncertain. President Richard Nixon’s ...

Chinese communist party leader Mao Zedong, left, and U.S. President Richard Nixon shake hands as they meet in Beijing, China on Feb. 21, 1972. Credit: AP FILE PHOTO I’m sure many of your readers ...

Setting out -- Arrival -- Chou En-Lai -- At the Diaoyutai -- Meeting with Mao -- Mao Tse-Tung -- The long freeze -- Breaking the pattern -- The polar bear -- The opening banquet -- Opening moves -- ...