Event held to mark 50th anniversary of Kissinger visit – Chinadaily.com.cn

Attendees gather at a meeting to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Henry Kissinger’s secret trip to China in Beijing on July 9, 2021. [Photo by Wang Zhuangfei/chinadaily.com.cn] 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…