SIR percy cradock on the carefully choreographed diplomatic dance that ended the US-China stand-off Nixon and Mao in mid- rapprochement in Beijing in 1972. Zhou Enlai is on the left, Henry Kissinger the right

The Sunday Telegraph London | October 29, 2006| | Copyright

Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao

BY MARGARET MACMILLAN

JOHN MURRAY, pounds 25, 329 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

The United States' rapprochement with China in the 1970s was one of the turning points in the history of the last century. For more than 20 years, from the Communist victory in China in 1949, there were no relations between Beijing and Washington. At the United Nations Taiwan held the China seat. As the Americans saw it, dtente with the Soviet Union was possible, but China was beyond the pale, irredeemably hostile. American prejudices were confirmed by the ...

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