News Analysis
As the anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s historic visit to Beijing reaches the half-century mark, it is time to take stock.
U.S. President Richard Nixon inspecting a guard of honor at Peking (Beijing) airport with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, in China, on Feb. 21, 1972. Keystone/Getty Images
June Teufel Dreyer
Author
June Teufel Dreyer is a professor of politics at the University of Miami, a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a faculty adviser to the Rumsfeld Foundation, and a former commissioner of the congressionally-mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Her books include studies on China’s ethnic minorities, Sino-Japanese relations, a comprehensive treatment of Chinese government now in its 10th edition, and an edited volume on Taiwan politics.
