https://www.scmp.com/rss/510881/feed Pete Millwood is a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. He is a historian of US-China relations and his first book, Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations, 1969–1978, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The visit of the influential American financier John Thornton to China this summer has drawn comparisons with another secret trip 50 years ago: then national security adviser Henry Kissinger’s first trip to China. Kissinger’s 1971 visit was of great consequence: days after Kissinger returned home, president Richard Nixon announced on live television that he, too, would travel to China, realising a US-China rapprochement after two decades of confrontation. Thornton’s six-week visit this summer... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3150586/china-and-us-welcome-return-backchannel-diplomacy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3150586/china-and-us-welcome-return-backchannel-diplomacy?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:30:11 +0000