{"id":36859,"date":"2022-02-22T19:30:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T19:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=36859"},"modified":"2022-02-22T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T19:30:19","slug":"nixon-in-china-50-years-on-pessimism-over-sino-us-ties-might-again-prove-unfounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=36859","title":{"rendered":"Nixon in China: 50 years on, pessimism over Sino-US ties might again prove unfounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIt is rare to come across a description of US president Richard Nixon\u2019s 1972 visit to China that does not use the words \u201chistoric\u201d or \u201cgroundbreaking\u201d. The phrase \u201cNixon goes to China\u201d has entered the American political lexicon, which journalist David Ignatius defined as \u201ca moment in which a leader reverses his past positions to do something that is shocking but beneficial\u201d.For the United States, the news that Nixon, whose entire political career had been built on rooting out communism, was\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3167915\/nixon-china-50-years-pessimism-over-sino-us-ties-might-again-prove?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIt is rare to come across a description of US president Richard Nixon\u2019s 1972 visit to China that does not use the words \u201chistoric\u201d&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":36860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36859"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}