Nixon Went to China Too

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Darrell Castle discusses the parallels between President Trump's summit with Premier Xi and President Nixon's historic visit to China in 1972.

Darrell Castle talks about President Trump’s recent summit with Premier Xi in China and points out the similarities with President Nixon’s summit in China in 1972. Transcription / Notes NIXON WENT TO CHINA TOO Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 22 nd day of May in the year of our Lord 2026. President Trump just completed a three-day historic summit with Premier Xi in China. He is not the first President to visit China since President Nixon made that trip in 1972 when China was a far different nation than today as it was in the throes of suffering through the Maoist revolution. This is the Friday before Memorial Day when we pause to remember the fallen and for most it is the start of a 3-day weekend, but for Joan and I it is a different sort of anniversary to remember. Forty-nine years ago, on this date we saw each other for the first time because we were introduced on a blind date with mutual friends. So, we met forty-nine years ago on this date and we have been together ever since but our actual anniversary, the forty-nine will be in December. This Memorial Day falls 81 years after the end of World War ll, seventy-seven years…

People in this episode

Host: Darrell Castle

Topics covered

• US-China relations
• political history
• Nixon's legacy
• Trump's diplomacy
• international summits

Keywords

• Trump
• Xi
• Nixon
• China
• summit
• politics
• history

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