https://www.scmp.com/rss/511890/feed In February 1972, US president Richard Nixon defied conventional foreign policy wisdom when he arrived in Beijing for meetings with Chinese leader Mao Zedong. In recognition of the trip’s historical significance, the South China Morning Post is running a multimedia series exploring interesting points of the past 50 years in US-China relations. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com As the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party prepare to gather in the seaside resort of Beidaihe for their annual summer summit, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went ahead with her controversial visit to Taiwan, leaving on Wednesday. With a strong likelihood that the Democrats will lose their House majority in November’s midterm elections, Pelosi is taking one last trip to the region. It is possible she hopes it will allow her to remain as Speaker. The Speaker of the House does not have authority... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3187571/us-stokes-geopolitical-flames-pelosis-taiwan-visit-china-must-be?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3187571/us-stokes-geopolitical-flames-pelosis-taiwan-visit-china-must-be?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Aug 2022 22:45:24 +0000 Fifty years ago last week, President Nixon made a landmark visit to Beijing that thawed tensions with China and reshaped the geopolitics of the Cold War. After the Sino-Soviet split of the 1960s had effectively turned a bipolar world order into a “tripolarity”, Nixon’s trip and the rapprochement it symbolised substantially altered the balance of power in the triangle of China-Soviet-US relations. The “strategic triangle” was the dominant frame through which geopolitics was understood at the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3168667/alarm-over-china-russia-axis-revives-unwanted-cold-war-mentality?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3168667/alarm-over-china-russia-axis-revives-unwanted-cold-war-mentality?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 28 Feb 2022 17:30:19 +0000 With China currently the only country capable of unseating America as the leading global power, many in Washington may wish that US president Richard Nixon had never made his historic trip to China 50 years ago this month. In their revisionist narrative, it was Nixon’s meeting with Communist Party of China chairman Mao Zedong, and the policy of engagement it initiated, that helped make China an economic superpower and a geopolitical threat to America. For these critics, the Nixon visit, far from... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3167507/nixon-was-right-gamble-china-despite-what-many-washington-think?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3167507/nixon-was-right-gamble-china-despite-what-many-washington-think?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 Feb 2022 17:30:16 +0000