Event held to mark 50th anniversary of Kissinger visit–China Economic Net

An event commemorating the 50th anniversary of Henry Kissinger’s secret trip to China took place at Beijing’s Diaoyutai State Guest House on Friday, the very place where the national security adviser to then United States president Richard Nixon spent many hours in conversations with then Premier Zhou Enlai. That trip was followed by Nixon’s historic visit to China the following year and the signing of the Shanghai Communique, the first communique between China and the US. Addressing the event, Vice-President Wang Qishan said that despite ups and downs over the past five decades, Sino-US relations have kept moving forward, bringing…